Please note:  Notes for each lecture will be posted as they are available.

Syllabus

Field Trip Info

Chapter Goals in Textbook Order

Introduction to the course & Meet the Earth

Basic scientific & geologic principles

Plate Tectonics

Plate Tectonics

Minerals

Minerals

Igneous Rocks

Volcanoes

Geologic Time and Fossils

Sedimentary Rocks

Hydrologic cycle:  Running Water 

Hydrologic cycle:  Groundwater

Weathering and Soils 

Mass Wasting 

Cryology

Wind and Deserts

Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks

Deformation

Earthquakes

Planetary geology

Planetary geology

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