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<p>Learn about the Earth’s history in a rock, a landscape, or a grain of sand from a seasoned field geologist who covers everything from backyard geology to the world’s most spectacular landforms.</p>

Syllabus

  • 01: Reading the Rocks
  • 02: Observing a Landscape and Its Landforms
  • 03: Find an Outcrop! Field Geology Up Close
  • 04: Reading a River and the Nearby Land
  • 05: The Beach: Spectacular Geology in Action
  • 06: What Sedimentary Rocks Tell You
  • 07: Desert Fans, Washes, Salt Lakes, and Dunes
  • 08: Ice, Glacial Landforms, and Gravel Exposures
  • 09: Limestone and Karst: What Deep Time Can Do
  • 10: Reading Strata through Geologic Time
  • 11: Reading Fossils: Life in the Geologic Past
  • 12: Where and How to Look for Fossils
  • 13: How Soils Form and Erode
  • 14: Groundwater and Water Wells
  • 15: Medical Geology: From Healthful to Harmful
  • 16: Lava Flows and Volcanic Landscapes
  • 17: Collecting Minerals and Crystals
  • 18: Granite: Igneous Rocks That Form at Depth
  • 19: Metamorphic Rocks and Tectonic Features
  • 20: Got Marble? Non-Foliated Metamorphic Beauty
  • 21: Is This Valuable? Gems and Meteorites
  • 22: Hunting Gold and Other Valuable Minerals
  • 23: Oil Geology, Oil Plays, and Oil Drilling
  • 24: Human Landscapes and Practical Geology
  • By This Professor

Taught by

James F. P. Cotter

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