| GEOL 312 - Environmental Geology - Lecture Notes |
The lecture notes for Geology 312 are available as pdf documents.
| Unit | Topic | Suggested reading | Lecture notes | Additional information |
1 |
Review, clay minerals, atmosphere and oceans and ancient life | Read Chapter 16 in Keller on global change, especially the part on CO2 and global warming.
Access the material under "Additional information" to the
right. On February 2nd 2007 the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a summary of it's
latest report on the Physical Science Basis of Climate Change. This
report, which has taken 6 years to compile, is a collaborative effort of
3750 scientists from 130 countries . |
unit1.pdf |
usgs-clays.pdf (U.S. Geological Survey) USC-anderson-clays.pdf (University of S. California) |
2 |
Earthquakes |
Read chapter 7 and visit my
website on the 1700
Juan de Fuca earthquake.
Complete the exercise on interpreting seismic data. to estimate magnitude using Richter's method Refer to the following information on stress transfer: http://web.mala.bc.ca/earle/geol312/importance-stress-transfer.htm |
unit2.pdf | Have a look at this U. of Washington site on liquefaction. |
3 |
Volcanoes | Read chapter 8 and visit my websites on the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens and the Hawaii volcanoes | unit3.pdf |
The 7 signs of an imminent eruption
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4 |
Glaciation, surficial deposits, soils and landslides | Read the first half of Chapter
3 (up to rates of soil erosion) and all of Chapter 6. Visit the
website on Howe
Sound debris flows. Download and read the chapter on Landslides
in SW BC from GSC Bull. 481. A depiction of global temperature changes over the past ~700 Ma. scotese-temp-through-time.gif Time graphs of the orbital elements: eccentricity_graph.gif, tilt_graph.gif, precession_graph.gif |
unit4.pdf | Another way of looking at the Milankovitch cycles |
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5 |
Geological resources and environmental geochemistry | Read chapters 10, 13, 14 and 15 | unit5.pdf | |
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6 |
Geological issues in waste disposal, forestry and engineering | Read chapters 12 and 14 | unit6.pdf | |
