Geology 100 
Links to Lecture Outlines 
Spring 2002

Outlines will usually be posted the day before each lecture.

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Topic
1 Why study the Earth?
2 Big Bang
3 Origin of the Earth
4 Journey to the center of the Earth
5 Building blocks of a Planet - Minerals
6 Asbestos
7 The rock cycle
8 Soft rock - Sedimentary rocks
9 Hard rock - Igneous and metamorphic rocks
10 Geologic time
11 The record in rocks
12 Earth's clock
13 Extinction of the dinosaurs
14 Power from the Earth - Fossil fuel
15 Fossil fuel and the environment
16 Wrath of Vulcan
17 Erupting volcanoes
18  Violent pulse - Earthquakes I 
19 Violent pulse - Earthquakes II
20 Are we ready for the Big One?
21 Drifting continents
22 Wandering poles - Sea-floor spreading
23 Grand unification theory - Plate tectonics
24 Sculpting Earth with water - Rivers
25  Floods I 
26 Floods II
27  Subterranean water
28 Groundwater and the environment
29 Sculpting Earth with ice - Glaciers

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