NSC 140:  Environmental Geology

Course Description:
This class explores the manner in which the earth’s geological processes affect and are affected by humans.  Topics to be discussed may include rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, mass wasting, water resources, floods, glaciers and climate change, energy resources, and waste management.  Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory per week.  This course may be taken to fulfill the physical science general-education requirement.  Four credit hours.

Course Syllabus

Course Outline (Schedule)

Journal Assignment

Extra-credit Assignment

Chapter Checklists for Review

Solutions to Quizzes and Exams

Web site for Pipkin's Geology and the Environment

Laboratory Schedule

Supplementary Materials and Figures

Some Interesting Web Sites
 
Discovery Channel Planet Earth Guide NaturalHazards.org Geology in a Nutshell (About.com):  lots of info
Natural Disasters:  Virtual Reference Desk The Disaster Center Pseudoscience:  Stephen Lower's interesting site
Natural Disasaters:  Think Quest Project The Savage Earth Online:  PBS Baldwin Hills dam collapse video (lab 8)
Planet Earth Guide:  The Learning Channel This Dynamic Earth:  plate tectonics (USGS) Google Earth:  view any place on Earth
Relief Web Geology.com:  nice website Relief Maps of the Earth:  see plate margins
Natural and Man-Made Disasters:  Yahoo WebDoGS:  interesting and fun stuff Critique of "The Day After Tomorrow"

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