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relationship between society and the earth: geologic hazards, resources, environmental challenges, evolution and structure of our planet's atmosphere, effects of anthropogenic perturbations in the systems such as the introduction of pollutants in groundwater or land degradation associated with agriculture

minerals, igneous rocks, volcanoes, weathering, erosion, soils, sediment & sedimentary rocks, metamorphism & metamorphic rocks, mass wasting/movement, running & groundwater, shorelines, glaciers, wind & deserts, geologic time, deformation & mountain building, earthquakes, plate tectonics, application of relative ages

groundwater pollution, biodiversity, volcanic hazards, etc, what is and is not believable about science, those subjects on which scientists are usually correct and those on which scientists have no special expertise

processes & distribution of glacial deposits: mass balance ice flow, glacier erosion & deposition, sub-glacial deformation, debris flow deposition, melt-out tills & ice-contact, processes, landforms, kettles, ice-contact landforms, glacial lakes, outwash

Mineral Definition & Properties, Classification, Physical Properties, Environments, Crystal Systems & Classes, Point & Space Groups, Crystal Structures, Coordination, Structure and stoichiometry, X-rays, powder diffraction, Density, optics, Birefringence & Pleochroism, Indicatrix, Biaxial Interference figures, Light, Biaxial Indicatrix, Isotropic, Phase Diagrams, Classification, Uniaxial Mineral, Systematic Mineralogy, Native Elements, Sulfides, Halides, Oxides, Hydroxides, Carbonates, Systematic Descriptive Mineralogy, Sulfates, Phosphates

Earth Systems, Plate Tectonics, Earth Materials, Igneous Rocks, Intrusives, Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphism, Deformation, Clocks in Rocks (Geologic Time), Solar System and formation of planets,– Evolution of Continents, Geobiology, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Earth’s Interior, Climate System, Weathering Erosion, and Mass Wasting, Groundwater and Hydrologic Cycle, Rivers and Streams, Winds and Deserts, Coasts and Oceans, Glaciers, Landscapes, Human Impacts

Relative Dating, Rocks and Minerals, Weathering of Rocks & Formation of Sediment, Data Table for Sand Samples, Sedimentary (Rocks, Rock Classification Table, Structures, Depositional Environments, Classification Chart), Stratigraphy & Lithologic Correlation, Invertebrate macrofossils, Fossil Preservation, Microfossils, Biostratigraphy Evolution, Evolution of Vertebrates, Interpreting Geologic History from Maps

study of the history of earth and life through time, overview of evolution, fossils, dinosaurs, geologic time, radiometric dating, origin of the earth, environments, geologic history of North America

geological background & volcanoes, dynamics of eruptions, Kilauea volcano, reading list, maps & pictures of Hawaii, links, course outline

Earth’s history as revealed through the principles of stratigraphy and the processes of physical geology, formations and geologic development of the North American continent: handouts (Geological Timescale, Exam Review Sheets, Review of Cordilleran Tectonics), links