By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following:
Define global climate change
Summarize the effects of the Industrial Revolution on global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration
Describe three natural factors affecting long-term global climate
List two or more greenhouse gases and describe their role in the greenhouse effect
Environmental Geology is taught in a seminar fashion or large lecture style. In both situations it is the methodology not content that differs. The major goal of the course is to explore aspects of geology that have significant impacts on humans. Some of these impacts have been exacerbated culturally and historically. We will examine those factors and impacts.
The course contents is general knowledge of the system Earth, tools for the 3D geometric representation of geological objects and methods and techniques for the recognition of fundamental minerals and rocks. The Geology 1 course is composed of three parts dedicated to 1) general knowledge of the system Earth, 2) tools for the 3D geometric representation of geological objects and 3) methods and techniques for the recognition of fundamental minerals and rocks.
When you ask the question What is geology? most people will initially respond that it is the study of rocks. This is true, but geology is also so much more than that. The truth is that geology is an intricate part of your everyday life.
This is a 2-unit Service Learning option associated with the "Special Topics: The History, Geology, and Ecology of Monterey Bay" course. Students will learn about Monterey Bay in the special topics course and will share their knowledge with K-12 grade children at local schools by participating in the Virtual Canyon Project.
This text is provided to you as an Open Educational Resource which you access online. It is designed to give you a comprehensive introduction to Geology at no or very nominal cost. It contains both written and graphic text material, intra-text links to other internal material which may aid in understanding topics and concepts, intra-text links to the appendices and glossary for tables and definitions of words, and extra-text links to videos and web material that clarifies and augments topics and concepts. Like any new or scientific subject, Geology has its own vocabulary for geological concepts. For you to converse effectively with this text and colleagues in this earth science course, you will use the language of geology, so comprehending these terms is important. Use the intra-text links to the Glossary and other related material freely to gain familiarity with this language.
This course is an introduction to the aspects of marine geology and oceanography that affect the environment and marine resources. Service-learning is an essential component of how students learn about the earth. We deliver part of the content of this course by arranging for students to solve a problem with a local community partner.
Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada. The book is a collaboration of faculty from Earth Science departments at Universities and Colleges across British Columbia and elsewhere.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Introduction to Geology
Chapter 2 Minerals
Chapter 3 Intrusive Igneous Rocks
Chapter 4 Volcanism
Chapter 5 Weathering and Soil
Chapter 6 Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 7 Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
Chapter 8 Measuring Geological Time
Chapter 9 Earth's Interior
Chapter 10 Plate Tectonics
Chapter 11 Earthquakes
Chapter 12 Geological structures
Chapter 13 Streams and Floods
Chapter 14 Groundwater
Chapter 15 Mass Wasting
Chapter 16 Glaciation
Chapter 17 Shorelines
Chapter 18 Geology of the Oceans
Chapter 19 Climate Change
Chapter 20 Geological Resources
Chapter 21 Geological History of Western Canada
Chapter 22 The Origin of Earth and the Solar System
Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada. The book is a collaboration of faculty from Earth Science departments at Universities and Colleges across British Columbia and elsewhere.
Physical Geology is a comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada. The book is a collaboration of faculty from Earth Science departments at Universities and Colleges across British Columbia and elsewhere.
Chapter 1. Introduction to Geology
Chapter 2. The Origin of Earth and the Solar System
Chapter 3. Earth's Interior
Chapter 4. Plate Tectonics
Chapter 5. Minerals
Chapter 6. The Rock Cycle
Chapter 7. Igneous Rocks
Chapter 8. Weathering, Sediment, and Soil
Chapter 9. Sedimentary Rocks
Chapter 10. Metamorphism and Metamorphic Rocks
Chapter 11. Volcanism
Chapter 12. Earthquakes
Chapter 13. Geological Structures and Mountain Building
Chapter 14. Streams and Floods
Chapter 15. Mass Wasting
Chapter 16. Earth-System Change
Chapter 17. Glaciation
Chapter 18. Geological Resources
Chapter 19. Measuring Geological Time
This syllabus is for the class "GEOL1001: Physical Geology" at Louisiana State University, which is the course CGEO 1103 on the statewide common course matrix.
This is a review of "An Introduction to Geology", a free textbook for college-level introductory geology courses, by Dr. Achim Herrmann (Department of Geology and Geophysics, LSU).The textbook is here: https://louis.oercommons.org/courses/an-introduction-to-geology-free-textbook-for-college-level-introductory-geology-courses
This is a review of an assignment that can be used in a variety of introductory geology classes to introduce students to the geologcial time scale. This review is by Dr. Achim Herrmann (Department of Geology and Geophysics, LSU).The resource is here: https://louis.oercommons.org/courses/starting-out-with-earth-history