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1. Why It Matters: Science of Geology
2. The Nature of Science: Scientific Method
3. Meet Geoscientists:
4. Earth Origin in the Nutshell (from Big Bang to Proterozoic)
5. Latest in the News on Earth:
6. Introduction to dating methods and the role of stratigraphy in understanding geologic history
7. Radiometric dating methods
8. The Geologic Time Scale
9. The Age of the Earth
10. Finding samples in the field
11. Why It Matters: Rock Forming Minerals
12. The Building Blocks of Matter
13. Atomic Bonds
14. Classifying Minerals
15. Physical Characteristics of Minerals
16. Most Common Earth Elements, Silicate Minerals and the Silicate Tetrahedron
17. Rocks and the Rock Cycle (I)
18. Characteristics of Igneous Rocks
19. How Are Igneous Rocks Classified?
20. Identifying Igneous Rocks
21. Uses of Igneous Rocks
22. Rocks and Rock Cycle (II): Sedimentary Rocks
23. Rocks and Rock Cycle (II): Metamorphism and Characteristics of Metamorphic Rocks
24. Identifying Metamorphic Rocks
25. Putting It Together: Rocks and the Rock Cycle
26. Plate Tectonics: Why It Matters
27. Continental Drift: founding block of the Plate Tectonics Theory
28. Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis Issues
29. Theory of Plate Tectonics
30. How Does Plate Tectonics Creates Mountains?
31. Supercontinents
32. Hot Spots
33. Conclusion
34. Why It Matters: Earth's Interior
35. Studying the Earth's Interior
36. Crustal Deformations: Why it matters?
37. Stress, Strain and Structures
38. Earthquakes: why it matters?
39. Seismology
40. Causes of Earthquakes
41. Common Locations of Earthquakes
42. The Ring of Fire
43. Body Waves
44. Surface Waves
45. Measuring Earthquakes: Scales
46. Earthquake Hazards and Prediction
47. Why It Matters: Volcanoes
48. Volcanoes at Plate Boundaries
49. Types of Volcanoes
50. Supervolcanoes
51. Volcanoes Hot Spots
52. Pyroclastic Deposits
53. Dikes and Sills
54. Volcanic Hazards: Volcanic Gases, Pyroclastic Flow, and Tephra
55. Volcanic Hazards: Lahars, Landslides, and Lavaflows
56. Volcano Monitoring
57. Mass Movement: Landslides
58. Landslide Types
59. Landslide Causes and Triggering Mechanisms
60. Human Impact on Mass Movement
61. Hydrological Cycle, Water in Society
62. Streams and Rivers
63. Drainage Basins, Longitudinal Profiles, Tectonics
64. Geologic Processes and Flowing Water
65. Human Impact: stream discharge, hydrograph, floods
66. Why It Matters: Hydrogeology
67. Groundwater
68. Porosity and Permeability, Darcy Law
69. Wells
70. Groundwater Withdrawal and its Effects
71. Groundwater Contamination
72. Why it matters: Oceans and Shorelines
73. Ocean Movement
74. Coastal Geology: Shorelines
75. Coastal Hazards
76. Human Modifications of Coastal Processes
77. Introduction
78. Climate and Weather
79. What are the most dynamic climate components?
80. Climate Change: what do we know?
81. Climate Change: is it a big news just now?
82. First awareness from climate models
83. Climate Science: Models
84. Glaciations and Deglaciations: scientific evidence
85. Solving a Climate Change Mystery: Milutin Milanković: Ice Ages & Climate
86. Who developed Climate Science?
87. Field data support
88. Where are we now ?
89. The Greenhouse and Other Effects
90. Effects of Climate Change
91. Two scales that define our actions in Climate Changing World!
92. Conclusion
93. What am I doing in Climate Science?
This video discusses how to identify a metamorphic rocks:
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