TTC Video - The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology With John J. Renton

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TTC Video - The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology With John J. Renton

Course No. 1700 | .MKV, x264, 960x720 | English, AAC, 2 Ch | 36x30 mins | 7 GB

Instructor: Professor John J. Renton Ph.D. | Genre: eLearning/Geology

 

The drama of geology is all around you. Have you ever been to Yellowstone National Park? If so, you have stood on a catastrophe in the making. The central region of the park is inside a collapsed volcanic crater that pulses with the hidden energy of magma deep below that will eventually explode in an eruption surpassing any in recorded history. Or have you ever driven in the rolling hills of the Piedmont region that extends from New Jersey to Alabama? Then you have crossed the core of an ancient mountain range that once rivaled the Himalayas. Now almost completely eroded away, these peaks were created 300 million years ago in the collision of tectonic plates that formed the supercontinent of Pangaea. Or have you ever noticed something as simple as tipped fence posts or leaning retaining walls? If so, then you have witnessed one of the most powerful and irresistible agents of geologic change, the ubiquitous force of gradual erosion called mass wasting.

 

A Science That Is Intuitive, Accessible, Concrete, and Exciting

 

Wherever you live or travel, geology is everywhere. Wouldn't you like to know how to read the rocks and landscape; how to make sense of debates over natural resources; and how to appreciate the "deep time" that governs a geologist's sweeping perspective?

 

These 36 half-hour lectures are your initiation into the geological world that lies just outside your door. The Nature of Earth: An Introduction to Geology introduces you to physical geology, the study of Earth's minerals, rocks, soils, and the processes that operate on them through time.

 

No other science deals more practically with the world on which we live, telling us where to dig a well; when to add lime to soil; how gold, oil, and other valuable minerals are formed and where to find them; what kinds of structures are safest in an earthquake zone; and why some active volcanoes are deadlier than others-far deadlier.

 

Geology also unlocks the history that lies hidden in the land all around us-in a piece of marble, a hillside, a handful of sand, the rock layers of a road cut, or the jagged peaks of a mountain range.

 

And for anyone who feels hesitant about the inherent complexity of sciences such as biology and physics, geology is surprisingly intuitive, accessible, and concrete. At the same time, it has the excitement of a never-ending detective story, replete with clues to the complex past of our planet.

 

 

Course Lecture Titles:

01--Origin of the Universe

02--Origin of the Solar System

03--Continental Drift

04--Plate Tectonics

05--Formation of Minerals

06--Classification of Minerals

07--Identification of Minerals

08--Kinds of Rocks

09--Sedimentary Rocks

10--Metamorphic Rocks

11--Volcanic Activity

12--Phases of Volcanic Activity

13--Hawaiian Islands and Yellowstone Park

14--Mass Wasting--Gravity at Work

15--Mass Wasting Processes

16--Weathering

17--Soils and Clay Minerals

18--Climate and Type of Soils

19--Streams--Major Agent of Erosion

20--Sculpting of the Landscape

21--Stream Erosion in Arid Regions

22--Ice Sculpts the Final Scene

23--Groundwater

24--Production of Groundwater

25--Karst Topography

26--Groundwater Contamination

27--Rock Deformation

28--Geologic Structures

29--Faults and Joints

30--Earthquakes

31--Damage from Earthquakes

32--Seismology

33--Formation of Mountains

34--Orogenic Styles

35--Economic Geology of Coal

36--Economic Geology of Petroleum

 

 

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