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In this course, you will learn :
- Learn about the Earth's history and how it works.
- Discover global phenomena, rocks, crystals, plate tectonics, geologic time, and the formation of rocks.
- Discover how geology influences everything from landscape shape to natural events (often called disasters.)
Syllabus :
- What the course teaches you…
- Beginnings, Basics & Historical Age of Earth
- James Hutton & Unconformities
- Virtual Field Trip: The Unconformity
- Kelvin's Heat Death
- What Is Matter?
- Radioactivity 1: History of Chemistry and More!
- Dubiously Related Fact of the Day: Crookes Tubes to Televisions
- Radioactivity 2: Light, Helium, and Particle Physics
- Atoms, Radioactivity and Geology
- Chondrites
- Blue Earth
- The Alps
- Jigsaw Earth
- Submarines & Mapping the Deep
- Explosive Seafloor Research
- Dredging
- Paleomagicians (Vine, Matthews, Morley, Raff, Mason)
- The Unifying Theory
- Convergent Margins
- Divergent Margins
- Putting It All Together: The Rocky Mountains
