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.
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.