Solid Earth System
Spring 2016 Instructors: Bill Menke and Einat Lev
Text: Stephen Marshak, Earth: Portrait of a Planet, 5t Edition, WW Norton, 978-0393937503, 2015
Lectures:
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Lecture 2: Composition of the Solar System
- Lecture 3: Plate Tectonics 1
- Lecture 4: Plate Tectonics 2
- Lecture 5: Plate Tectonics 3
- Lecture 6: Minerals and Rocks
- Lecture 7: Igneous Rocks and Relative Time
- Lecture 8: Relative Age and Absolute Age
- Lecture 9: Rain and Streams
- Lecture 10: Weathering aned Erosion
- Lecture 11: Sedimentary Environments
- Lecture 12: Ocean Sediments 1
- Lecture 13: (none)
- Lecture 14: Ocean Sediments 2
- Lecture 15: Ice Ages
- Lecture 16: Fossil Fuels
- Lecture 17: Formation of Ores
- Lecture 18: Mineral Commodities
- Lecture 19: Geothermal Power
- Lecture 20: Summary
Case Studies:
- Earthquakes
- Floods
- Floods_cpt
- Fieldtrip Followup
Homework
- Fieldtrip
- HW 1
- HW 2
- HW 3
- HW 4
- HW 5
- Term Paper
Labs: (Lab Requirements)
- Lab 1: Physiography of the Earth
- Lab 2: Tectonic Plates
- Volcano Locs
- Lab 3: Examining Rocks
- Rock Mineral Intro
- Lab 4: Geologic Time
- Relative Age_Diagram
- Geological Timescale Tables
- Lab 5: River Discharge Patterns
- Hudson River Header
- Hudson River Data
- Hudson River Map
- Neuse River Header
- Neuse River Data
- Neuse River Map
- Salt River Header
- Salt River Data
- Salt River Map
- Excel Hint 1
- Excel Hint 2
- Lab 6: Patterns of Erosion
- Lab 7: Remote Sensing
- Lab 8: Ocean Sediments
- Tutorial
- Vema 3408 Track Map
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- Lab 9: Geology of an Oil Field
- Tutorial
- Rift Basin Tutorial
- Basin Map
- Core Lithologies
- Oil Field Seismic Profile
- World Map
- Regional Map
- Lab 10: Geology of a Mine
- Gold Resources
- Sample Spreadsheet
- Strike and Dip
- Table1
- Fig 1
- Fig 2
- Fig 3
- Fig 4
- Fig 5
- Fig 6
- Fig 7
- Lab 11: Examining Ore Minerals