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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

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

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

nucleosynthetic processes and the isotopic abundances of the elements, geochronology and cosmochronology using radioactive decay schemes, use of radiogenic and stable isotopes in petrology and their application to study of the evolution of the crust and mantle, isotopic evidence regarding formation of Earth & solar system, stable isotopes and their use in geothermometry, ore petrogenesis, paleontology, global climate system

Relative Dating, Rocks and Minerals, Weathering of Rocks & Formation of Sediment, Data Table for Sand Samples, Sedimentary (Rocks, Rock Classification Table, Structures, Depositional Environments, Classification Chart), Stratigraphy & Lithologic Correlation, Invertebrate macrofossils, Fossil Preservation, Microfossils, Biostratigraphy Evolution, Evolution of Vertebrates, Interpreting Geologic History from Maps

ways to recognize and characterize major structures in the earth's crust and gain insight into how these structures form, understanding crustal structures, techniques for determining the sequence in which structures form, macroscopic & microscopic structures

geological background & volcanoes, dynamics of eruptions, Kilauea volcano, reading list, maps & pictures of Hawaii, links, course outline

formation and composition of the solar system (Nucleosynthesis, atoms, and isotopes, solar nebula, Proto-planetary disks, Condensation and Accretion), Physics (Heating and cooling of celestial bodies), Moon, Small bodies