Subsections
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- Introduction to the Earth System
- From the Big Bang to the formation of the Solar system
- Planetary formation and differentiation
- The Earths Interior
- Plate tectonics the unifying theory of Geology
- Folding and faulting
- Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Classes of rock forming minerals
- Mineral structures
- Igneous Rocks
- Metamorphic Rocks
- Sedimentary rocks: Sedimentary basins, deposition and burial, diagenesis, classes of sedimentary rocks
- Rock cycle, basic rock identification
- Weathering Erosion and Mass wasting
- Stream Transport: From Mountains to Oceans
- Wind as transporting and depositional agent
- sedimentary rocks and fossil fuel reserves
- Sedimentary rocks and fossils
- The special role of sedimentary rocks for dating
- Sedimentary rocks, the evolution of life and Geobiology
- Absolute dating tools
- The Climate System
- The Hydrological Cycle and Ground water
- The Human Impact on the environment
- Grotzinger and Jordan, Understanding Earth R. Ruddiman, Earth’s climate, Past Present Future, W. H. Freeman (2000), Paperback, 465 pages, ISBN 0716737418 / 9780716737414
- Assignments from the "Big History Project" Unit 1-6, 8 &10 on Khan academy Topics: "What is Big History", "The Big Bang", "Stars & Elements","Our Solar System and Earth", "Life", "Early Humans", "The Acceleration", "Future".
