EEES 1010 Physical Geology
(most recently updated November 17, 2008)
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Syllabus for
fall 2008
or download a PDF
version of the syllabus
Prepare for the cumulative part of the final
exam:
Overview: The Big Questions from
Physical Geology
(download
the Word file with questions & answers)
Grades for the second exam (now updated for Fall 2008 Exam 2)
Grades for the final exam and the course
Watch An Inconvenient Truth (for course points)
In our classroom, Driscoll Center 1019:
Friday, October 31, 11:00
Attend "Energy, Environment, and Economy:
Can Science Help?"
Dr. Arden Bement, Director of the National Science Foundation
Monday, November 3 7:00
PM
Memorial Field House Room 2100
*** For Course Points ***
Environmental Issues
Special Reports on Global Climate, by Tom Henry, Toledo Blade newspaper
New York Times editorial on upcoming World Conference in Bali
NPR and National Geographic: Climate
Connections
The Aral Sea
Lake
Superior in the Midst of a Drought
Al Gore and U.N. Climate Panel Win Nobel Peace Prize
Ways to reduce your carbon footprint
CNN's
Anderson Cooper - Planet in Peril
Outlines of Class Presentations
Chapter 1. Introduction
Text summary for Physics of the
Earth
PPT presentation for Physics of
the Earth
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Link for Galileo on Nova
Chapter 9. Earth’s
interior
Formation of the solar
system
Science in the News
How did Earth get
its Moon?
Molten Moon interior
Chapter 2. Plate tectonics
Chapter 3. Atoms, elements, & minerals
Chapter 4. Igneous rocks
Characteristics of magmas and igneous rocks
Chapter 5. Volcanism & extrusive rocks
Chapter 6. Weathering & soil
Chapter 7. Sediments
View the PPT presentation for sediments
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Chapter 8. Metamorphic rocks
Chapter 9. Earthquakes
Chapter 10. Folding and mountain building
Chapter 17. Geologic time
Chapter 12. Rivers and floods
Chapter 13. Ground water
Chapter 13. Environmental sustainability