Tulane University

Earth & Environmental Sciences 1110
Physical Geology

Fall 2017  
Professor Stephen A. Nelson

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Announcements  - Look here during the semester for announcements concerning this course.

October 4, 2017 The first exam has been graded and will be passed back to the class on Thursday,.  Click HERE to see the results of the exam.

November 9, 2017 The second exam has been graded and will be passed back in class.  Click HERE to see the results of the exam.

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Note:  Two versions of each set of lecture notes are shown in the table below.  The first is in html format, optimized for viewing on the Web at screen resolutions greater than 800x600.  You can print this version directly from your Web browser, but there is no guarantee that the pages will break where they are supposed to, since each person's browser can be set up differently (margins, fonts, font sizes, etc.).  The PDF (Portable Document Format) versions of the lecture notes are optimized for printing.  All page breaks should occur correctly.  If your web browser has the proper plug-in installed, clicking on the PDF will bring the file into your web browser from which you can then print the notes.  If the plug-ins are not installed, your web browser will either attempt to download the PDF files or offer to send you to the Adobe web site to download the plug-ins for your browser.  If you choose to download the PDF format lecture notes you will still need the free Adobe Reader to view and print the files.  This and further information about the browser plug-ins can be obtained by clicking on the icon below.

Some web browsers use a different method to display the Symbol font which I used for creating Greek Characters like - Δ Σ α β etc. If these characaters do not show up as Greek characters, your browser has this problem.   The alternative is to use different browser to view the html files or to use the PDF files where all fonts are rendered correctly.

Note that only the items with the red asterisk (*) have been updated for the Spring 2017 semester.

Ch 1 & 2 - Planet Earth*

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Ch 3 & 4 - Plate Tectonics*

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Ch 5 - Minerals*

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 Ch 6 - Igneous Rocks*

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Ch 9 - Volcanoes*

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Ch 7 - Weathering & Soils*

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Ch 7 - Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks*

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Ch 8 - Metamorphic Rocks*

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Ch 10 - Earthquakes & the Earth's Interior*

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Ch 11 - Mountains and Deformation of Rock*

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Ch 12 - Geologic Time*

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Ch 14 -   Energy Resources*

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Ch 15 - Mineral Resources*

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Ch 16 - Mass Movements*

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Ch 17 - Streams*

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Ch 18 - Oceans and Coasts *

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Ch 19   - Groundwater*

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Ch 21 - Deserts*

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Ch 22- Glaciers*

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Ch 23 - Global Change

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Links to Geology Web Sites of Interest

Plate Tectonics

• USGS: This Dynamic Earth
  
  

Minerals

• The Mineralogical Society of America
• The Mineral Gallery

Volcanoes

• MTU Volcanoes Page
• The Electronic Volcano

Geologic Time

• National Park Service Geologic Time page
• USGS: Fossils, Rocks, and Time
• UC Berkeley Museum of Paleontology, Geologic Time Page
  

Mass Wasting

• USGS National Landslide Information Center

Earthquakes

• USGS Earthquake Information