Intermediate, Images, Geology

Geomorphology

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

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

Glacial Geology

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

Historical Geology Online Laboratory Manual

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

Structural Geology

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

Hawaii Field Trip

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

Glacial Geology

characteristics, origin and development of glacial landforms and related phenomena from the past three million years: Glacier (Characteristics, Flow), Paleoenvironmental Reconstruction, Erosional Landforms, Ice Age Chronology, Glacial (Erosion, Deposition & Till Characteristics, Mass Balance, Debris Transport, Meltwater Deposits & Landforms), Depositional Landforms, Causes of Climate Change

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