GEOLOGY INDEX
THE BIRTH OF GEOLOGY
  • Geology as a modern science
  • Hutton
  • Uniformitarianism and catastrophism

  • THE SOLAR SYSTEM

  • The Sun
  • The major Planets
  • Comparison between Planets
  • Asteroids, Comets, Dust and Gases
  • Origin (formation) of the Solar 

  •    System and of the Earth

    DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTH 

  • General Description
  • The atmosphere
  •     composition 
  •     origin
  • The hydrosphere:
  •     composition
  •     origin

  • The lithosphere
        Continental topography
        Ocean floor topography

    Sources of info about the earth's interior
         Direct Info
         Indirect Info

    EARTHQUAKES

  • terminology
  • wave types
  • location
  • measurement: 
  •      Richter scale; 
  •      Mercalli scale
  • Prediction
  • Control

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    INTERNAL STRUCTURE
  • EQ Wave behavior
  • EQ Wave patterns
  • The Shadow Zone
  • the crust
  • the mantle
  • the core
  • the lithosphere
  • the asthenosphe
  • Temperature and Pressure

  • CHART OF THE INTERNAL STRUCTURE OF THE EARTH 

    PLATE TECTONICS
    CONTINENTAL DRIFT

  • First ideas
  • Wegener
  • Holmes and DuToit

  • OCEAN FLOOR SPREADING
  • Oceans vs continents
  • Paleomagnetism

  • PLATE BOUNDARIES
  • Divergent Boundaries
  • Convergent Boundaries
  • Ocean/Ocean
  • Ocean/Continent
  • Continent/Continent
  • Transform Boundaries
  • Triple Junctions
  • Hot Spots
  • Earthquakes and P.T.
  • Volcanos and P.T.
  • SUMMARY CHART OF PLATE    TECTONICS FEATURES

  • CONTINENTAL DRIFT:
  • a modern perspective
  • continental migrations

  • GEOLOGIC TIME
    ABSOLUTE TIME
    RELATIVE TIME
    local sequences
    correlation
    fossils for correlation
    Geologic Time Scale
    MORE on FOSSILS

    EARTH MATERIALS
    MINERALS
  • Definition
  • Classification
  • Recognition 
  • ROCKS
  • Types

  • IGNEOUS ROCKS
  • Igneous Rocks
  • Differentiation
  • Crystal size
  • Classification
  • Igneous Landforms
  • Plutons
  • Volcanos
  • Viscosity
  • Types of Volcanos
  • Importance of Volcanos

  • WEATHERING
  • Physical
  • Chemical
  • Products

  • Soils
  • formation
  • Major Types
  • Pedocals
  • Pedalfers

  • SEDIMENTARY ROCKS
  • Classification
  • Clastic Sed. Rx.
  • Chemical Sed. Rx.
  • Organic Sed. Rx.
  • Sed. Rx. and Plate tectonics

  • METAMORPHIC ROCKS
  • Classification
  • Contact Metamorphism
  • Regional Metamorphism
    • THE ROCK CYCLE
    SUMMARY CHART OF THE ROCK CYCLE
    EXTERNAL PROCESSES
    EROSION
  • Definition
  • Types

  • MASS WASTING
  • Rapid mass wasting
  • Causes
  • Slow Mass wasting

  • THE HYDROLOGIC CYCLE
  • The hydrologic Cycle

  • STREAMS
  • Definition
  • Drainage basins
  • Erosion
  • Transport
  • Deposition
  • Valley evolution
  • People and streams

  • GROUND WATER
  • Definition
  • Erosion
  • Deposition
  • People and Ground water

  • GLACIERS
  • Definition
  • Regimen
  • Erosion
  • Deposition
  • Past Glaciations

  • COASTAL PROCESSES
  • Definition
  • Erosion
  • Transport
  • Deposition
  • People and Coasts

  • AEOLIAN(WIND) PROCESSES
  • Erosion
  • Transport
  • Deposition
  • Dunes