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.
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
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.