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What is Geology?
Why Study Earth?
What Do Geologists Do?
Minerals and Rocks
Fundamentals of Plate Tectonics
Geological Time
Summary
Getting Started in Google Earth Pro
Grid Systems and Coordinates
1.1 Discovering Plate Tectonics
1.2 Plates, Plate Motions, and Plate Boundaries
Lab 1 Exercises
2.1 Bonding and Lattices
2.2 Mineral Groups
2.3 Mineral Properties
2.4 Economic Minerals
Lab 2 Exercises
3.1 Silicate Mineral Groups
Lab 3 Exercises
4.1 Magma and Magma Formation
4.2 Crystallization of Magma
4.3 Classification of Igneous Rocks
Lab 4 Exercises
5.1 Weathering
5.2 The Products of Weathering and Erosion
5.3 Clastic Sedimentary Rocks
5.4 Chemical Sedimentary Rocks
5.5 Depositional Environments and Sedimentary Basins
Lab 5 Exercises
6.1 Metamorphism and Plate Tectonics
6.2 Classification of Metamorphic Rocks
6.3 The Rock Cycle
Lab 6 Exercises
Review of Minerals and Rocks
7.1 The Geological Time Scale
7.2 Relative Dating Methods
Lab 7 Exercises
8.1 Stream Erosion and Deposition
8.2 Stream Types
8.3 What Makes a Map?
Lab 8 Exercises
Lab 9 Exercises
9.1 Introduction to Structural Geology
9.3 Estimating Dip Direction from a Geological Map
9.2 Geological Maps
10.1 Stress and Strain
10.2 Folding
10.3 Faulting
Lab 10 Exercises
Mineral Identification Tables
Rock Classification Tables
Glossary
Appendix 1: List of Geologically Important Elements and the Periodic Table
Appendix 2: Answers to Practice Exercises
Appendix 3: Answers to Lab Exercises
Appendix 4: Economic Minerals
Appendix 5: Block Models
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