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