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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. National Geochemical Database and Mineral Resources Program: key to main minerals and rocks in US and the World
27. Plate Tectonics: Why It Matters
28. Continental Drift: founding block of the Plate Tectonics Theory
29. Wegener and the Continental Drift Hypothesis Issues
30. Theory of Plate Tectonics
31. How Does Plate Tectonics Creates Mountains?
32. Supercontinents
33. Hot Spots
34. Conclusion
35. Why It Matters: Earth's Interior
36. Studying the Earth's Interior
37. Crustal Deformations: Why it matters?
38. Stress, Strain and Structures
39. Earthquakes: why it matters?
40. Seismology
41. Causes of Earthquakes
42. Common Locations of Earthquakes
43. The Ring of Fire
44. Body Waves
45. Surface Waves
46. Measuring Earthquakes: Scales
47. Earthquake Hazards and Prediction
48. Why It Matters: Volcanoes
49. Volcanoes at Plate Boundaries
50. Types of Volcanoes
51. Supervolcanoes
52. Volcanoes Hot Spots
53. Pyroclastic Deposits
54. Dikes and Sills
55. Volcanic Hazards: Volcanic Gases, Pyroclastic Flow, and Tephra
56. Volcanic Hazards: Lahars, Landslides, and Lavaflows
57. Volcano Monitoring
58. Mass Movement: Landslides
59. Landslide Types
60. Landslide Causes and Triggering Mechanisms
61. Human Impact on Mass Movement
62. Hydrological Cycle, Water in Society
63. Streams and Rivers
64. Drainage Basins, Longitudinal Profiles, Tectonics
65. Geologic Processes and Flowing Water
66. Human Impact: stream discharge, hydrograph, floods
67. Why It Matters: Hydrogeology
68. Groundwater
69. Porosity and Permeability, Darcy Law
70. Wells
71. Groundwater Withdrawal and its Effects
72. Groundwater Contamination
73. Why it matters: Oceans and Shorelines
74. Ocean Movement
75. Coastal Geology: Shorelines
76. Coastal Hazards
77. Human Modifications of Coastal Processes
78. Introduction
79. Climate and Weather
80. What are the most dynamic climate components?
81. Climate Change: what do we know?
82. Climate Change: is it a big news just now?
83. First awareness from climate models
84. Climate Science: Models
85. Glaciations and Deglaciations: scientific evidence
86. Solving a Climate Change Mystery: Milutin Milanković: Ice Ages & Climate
87. Who developed Climate Science?
88. Field data support
89. Where are we now ?
90. The Greenhouse and Other Effects
91. Effects of Climate Change
92. Two scales that define our actions in Climate Changing World!
93. Conclusion
94. What am I doing in Climate Science?
This video discusses how to identify a metamorphic rocks:
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