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processes that impact large areas such as mountain building due to plate tectonics, local events such as mass wasting events on hill slopes, landforms in Ohio and their formation

climate change during the Holocene, different climate archives and their use to establish past climatic changes, glacier fluctuations, tree-rings, lake and marine sediments, pollen, and ice cores, current knowledge of Holocene climate change in British Columbia and surrounding areas, larger spatial and temporal patterns using examples from Europe, the Southern Hemisphere and the tropics, Possible forcing mechanisms responsible for the reconstructed changes, future climate change scenarios and their environmental consequences

relationship between society and the earth: geologic hazards, resources, environmental challenges, evolution and structure of our planet's atmosphere, effects of anthropogenic perturbations in the systems such as the introduction of pollutants in groundwater or land degradation associated with agriculture

minerals, igneous rocks, volcanoes, weathering, erosion, soils, sediment & sedimentary rocks, metamorphism & metamorphic rocks, mass wasting/movement, running & groundwater, shorelines, glaciers, wind & deserts, geologic time, deformation & mountain building, earthquakes, plate tectonics, application of relative ages

groundwater pollution, biodiversity, volcanic hazards, etc, what is and is not believable about science, those subjects on which scientists are usually correct and those on which scientists have no special expertise

processes & distribution of glacial deposits: mass balance ice flow, glacier erosion & deposition, sub-glacial deformation, debris flow deposition, melt-out tills & ice-contact, processes, landforms, kettles, ice-contact landforms, glacial lakes, outwash

Mineral Definition & Properties, Classification, Physical Properties, Environments, Crystal Systems & Classes, Point & Space Groups, Crystal Structures, Coordination, Structure and stoichiometry, X-rays, powder diffraction, Density, optics, Birefringence & Pleochroism, Indicatrix, Biaxial Interference figures, Light, Biaxial Indicatrix, Isotropic, Phase Diagrams, Classification, Uniaxial Mineral, Systematic Mineralogy, Native Elements, Sulfides, Halides, Oxides, Hydroxides, Carbonates, Systematic Descriptive Mineralogy, Sulfates, Phosphates

Earth Systems, Plate Tectonics, Earth Materials, Igneous Rocks, Intrusives, Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphism, Deformation, Clocks in Rocks (Geologic Time), Solar System and formation of planets,– Evolution of Continents, Geobiology, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Earth’s Interior, Climate System, Weathering Erosion, and Mass Wasting, Groundwater and Hydrologic Cycle, Rivers and Streams, Winds and Deserts, Coasts and Oceans, Glaciers, Landscapes, Human Impacts