Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology
36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture -AVI
Have you ever been to Yellowstone National Park? If so, you have stood on a catastrophe
in the making. The central region of the park is inside a collapsed volcanic crater
that pulses with the hidden energy of magma deep below that will eventually explode in
an eruption surpassing any in recorded history.
Or have you ever driven in the rolling hills of the Piedmont region that extends from
New Jersey to Alabama? Then you have crossed the core of an ancient mountain range that
once rivaled the Himalayas. Now almost completely eroded away, these peaks were created
300 million years ago in the collision of tectonic plates that formed the
supercontinent of Pangea.
Or have you ever noticed something as simple as tipped fence posts or leaning retaining
walls? If so, then you have witnessed one of the most powerful and irresistible agents
of geologic change, the ubiquitous force of gradual erosion called mass wasting.
36 LECTURES
Course Lecture Titles
1. Origin of the Universe
2. Origin of the Solar System
3. Continental Drift
4. Plate Tectonics
5. The Formation of Minerals
6. Classification of Minerals
7. The Identification of Minerals
8. Kinds of Rocks
9. Sedimentary Rocks
10. Metamorphic Rocks
11. Volcanic Activity
12. Phases of Volcanic Activity
13. The Hawaiian Islands and Yellowstone Park
14. Mass Wasting-Gravity at Work
15. Mass Wasting Processes
16. Weathering
17. Soils and the Clay Minerals
18. Climate and the Type of Soils
19. Streams-The Major Agent of Erosion
20. Sculpting of the Landscape
21. Stream Erosion in Arid Regions
22. Ice Sculpts the Final Scene
23. Groundwater
24. The Production of Groundwater
25. Karst Topography
26. Groundwater Contamination
27. Rock Deformation
28. The Geologic Structures
29. Faults and Joints
30. Earthquakes
31. Damage from Earthquakes
32. Seismology
33. The Formation of Mountains
34. Orogenic Styles
35. Economic Geology of Coal
36. Economic Geology of Petroleum
Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology | 4 GB English | Course No. 1700 (36 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture)
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