This page provides PDF links that covers the following topics
related to Geology : Introduction, history of the earth and geological time,
Minerals, The rock cycle and igneous rocks, Volcanism and volcanic rocks,
Sedimentary and metamorphic rocks , Glaciation and surficial deposits, History
of Plate Tectonics, Plate tectonics, Earthquakes.
This note deals with the application
of geological and related principles to the solution of various types of crimes.
Topics covered includes: The Case of the Sandy Body, Characterizing Sand,
Characterizing Minerals, Characterizing Rocks, Using Pigments to Identify Art
Fraud, Demise of the Ice Man, Radioactive Isotopes, Stable Isotopes.
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.