Science Support—Geology

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The following resources are generally applicable to one or more earth science or geology courses. Resources found here are intended to supplement—not replace—your coursework and do not necessarily reflect your course's schedule or structure. Topics are listed in roughly alphabetical order.

Supplemental Resources

Astronomy

• YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Professor Dave Explains: Astronomy/Astrophysics series Links to an external site.

Atmosphere and weather

• VIDEO: Structure of the atmosphere Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Atmospheric circulation and wind Links to an external site.

Deserts

• VIDEO: Desert landforms Links to an external site.

Earthquakes

• VIDEO: Seismogram analysis and finding the distance to epicenter Links to an external site.

Geologic time and radiometric dating

• VIDEO: Radiometric dating Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Relative dating of rock layers Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Index fossils Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Rock and fossil correlation Links to an external site.

Glaciers

• VIDEO: Glacial landforms Links to an external site.

Groundwater

• VIDEO: Karst topography animation Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Aquifer basics Links to an external site.

Maps and block diagrams

• VIDEO: Topographic map features Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Drawing topographic profiles Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Folds and faults (block diagrams) Links to an external site.

Oceans

• VIDEO: Features of ocean basins Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Coastal processes Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Coastal upwelling Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Waves Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Tides Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Thermohaline circulation Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Passive vs. active continental margins Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Continental rifting Links to an external site.
• YOUTUBE CHANNEL: Biological productivity and energy transfer in oceans Links to an external site.

Plate tectonics

• VIDEO: Plate tectonics overview Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Plate tectonics animation Links to an external site.

Rocks and minerals

• IMAGE: Bowen's reaction series diagram
• IMAGE: Igneous rock identification
• IMAGE: Sedimentary rock identification
• VIDEO: Igneous rocks basics Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: The rock cycle Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Rock and mineral identification Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Sedimentary rock identification Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Metamorphic rock identification Links to an external site.
• VIDEO: Contact vs. regional metamorphism Links to an external site.

Volcanoes

• VIDEO: Classifying volcanoes Links to an external site.