Introduction to Geology
This course note introduces students to the basics of geology. It will addresses topics ranging from mineral and rock identification to the origin of the continents, from geologic mapping to plate tectonics, and from erosion by rivers and glaciers to the history of life.
Author(s): Prof. Taylor Perron and Prof. Oliver Jagoutz
NA Pages 
Physical Geology Lecture Notes
This note explains the following topics: Origins - Universe, Solar System and Earth, Earth Structure and Composition, Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, Minerals, Rocks and the Rock Cycle, Igneous Rocks, Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphic Rocks, The Hydrologic Cycle,Soils and Mass Wasting/Mass Movement, Streams, Groundwater , Glaciers and Glaciation, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Mountains and Structures, Geologic Time, Fossils, Energy Resourses.
Author(s): K. Leonard
NA Pages
This course note introduces students to the basics of geology. It will addresses topics ranging from mineral and rock identification to the origin of the continents, from geologic mapping to plate tectonics, and from erosion by rivers and glaciers to the history of life.
Author(s): Prof. Taylor Perron and Prof. Oliver Jagoutz
NA Pages
Structural Geology Laboratory Manual
A structural geology laboratory manual comes always handy to anyone dealing with maps, cross-sections or stereograhic nets. This manual contains explanations and exercises on attitude measurements, true and apparent dips, three-point problems, stereographic projections, rotations with the stereonet, stereograms, geologic mapping and cross-section construction, thickness and outcrop problems ans statistical techniques.
Author(s): David T. Allison
205 Pages
The aim of this note is to provide a basic introduction to the geological and geophysical processes that form and shape the ocean basins and their margins. Topics covered includes: Seafloor Mapping, Understanding Conductive Cooling, Cooling of the Ocean Plates, Evidence for Plate Tectonics from Magnetics, Global Seismology, Mantle Melting and Phase Diagrams, Mid-Ocean Ridge Segmentation, Subduction Zones, Seismic Hazards in the Pacific Northwest, Passive Margins and Sediment Transport, Sequence Stratigraphy and Eustacy, Deep Sea Sedimentation and Paleoceanography.
Author(s): William Wilcock
NA Pages
The planet we live on The beginnings of the Earth Sciences
This book, like the others in the Series, is written in simple English the language most widely used in science and technology. It provides an introduction to the study of Earth science, but `Earth science' is interpreted differently in different countries. In some regions of the Earth, such as on the Pacific margins, it usually covers all the science relating to the Earth, including geology, meteorology, oceanography, geomorphology and soil science. It therefore covers much of physical geography in these regions, where geography is often not a strong school subject. In other countries `Earth science' has a rather narrower definition, largely covering only geology, whilst other aspects of `Earth science' are covered in geography. Nevertheless, wherever on Earth this book is being read, if you want to study `Earth science' in Higher Education, at College or University, you will study mainly geology. So this book has been written as an introductory guide to geology, to interest you in the subject and to enthuse you to study geology at higher levels.
Author(s): Chris King
196 Pages
Planetary Geology A Teachers Guide with Activities in Physical and Earth Sciences
This book will be a valuable resource in teaching the physical, earth, and space sciences. It introduces students to the scientific results of planetary exploration. This educator's guide features exercises grouped into five units: 1) introduction to geologic processes, 2) impact cratering activities, 3) planetary atmosphere, 4) planetary surfaces and 5) geologic mapping.
Author(s): NASA
223 Pages
New Theory of the Earth, is a book written by Don L. Anderson. This is an interdisciplinary advanced textbook on all aspects of the interior of the Earth and its origin, composition, and evolution: geophysics, geochemistry, dynamics, convection, mineralogy, volcanism, energetics and thermal history. This is the only book on the whole landscape of deep Earth processes that ties together all the strands of the subdisciplines.
Author(s): Don L. Anderson
NA Pages
This book explains about the earth and its evolution.Also describes planetary formation theories and builds a model of what early earth could of looked like, subtley using the scientific method and asking and answering questions every step of the way.
Author(s): James Hutton
NA Pages
Geology is a science of such rapid growth that no apology is expected when from time to time a new text-book is added to those already in the field. The present work, however, is the outcome of the need of a text-book of very simple outline, in which causes and their consequences should be knit together as closely as possible,—a need long felt by the author in his teaching, and perhaps by other teachers also. The author has ventured, therefore, to depart from the common usage which subdivides geology into a number of departments,—dynamical, structural, physiographic, and historical,—and to treat in immediate connection with each geological process the land forms and the rock structures which it has produced. In arrangement, the twofold division of the subject was chosen because of its simplicity and effectiveness. The principles of physical geology come first; the several chapters are arranged in what is believed to be a natural order, appropriate to the greatest part of our country, so that from a simple beginning a logical sequence of topics leads through the whole subject. The historical view of the science comes second, with many specific illustrations of the physical processes previously studied, but now set forth as part of the story of the earth, with its many changes of aspect and its succession of inhabitants. Special attention is here given to North America, and care is taken to avoid overloading with details.
Author(s): William Harmon Norton
NA Pages
