<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>
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
James F. P. Cotter
