Geology 101/103 Links
jeff.simpson@cgc.edu - E-Mail Your Professor
Steven Reynolds' Virtual Geology
Exploring Geology eText + Connect ($86) - Required - Click DIGITAL Tab
MCCCD Course Competencies - 101IN / 101 / 103

​Geology 101 Topics
The topical outline below will change as we have switched textbooks and are now remote rather than face-to-face.
Introduction
  Syllabus / Is Geology Relevant? / News / Pretest + Answer Sheet / Interview / Black Boxes or Cartesian Diver / Smashing Granite & Using Stereoscope

Atoms to Minerals
  Atoms to Molecules Lecture / Ch 3 SS (Study Sheet with Vocabulary) / Counting Atoms / Crossword
  FR: Minerals (Film Review) / Mineral Lecture / Atom Drawings / FR: Minerals / 
  Rock Forming Minerals Lab / Economic Minerals Labs / Shorty 2: Eating Dirt
  Thin Sections / Density / Crystals 
  Rock-Forming Mineral Lab / Economic Minerals / Crystal Lab + Hydrates

Igneous Rocks
  Igneous Environments Lecture / FR: Intrusive Rocks / Ch 5 SS: Igneous Environments
  Igneous Lecture / Ch 5 SS: Pages 1-4 / FR: Volcanic Rocks / FR: Intrusive Rocks
  Igneous Rock Lab / Make Crystals / Igneous Rock Slides 1-10

Sedimentary Rocks
 Eating Dirt /  Sediment Chart / Lab 6: Sed Rocks / Sand Observations / Reynolds Sed SS 
 FR: Sed Rocks / Soil Size / Porosity & Permeability Lab / ​Sand Lab / Grain Size Lab

Metamorphic Rocks
  Metamorphic Lecture / Metamorphic Lab / FR: Met Rocks / Metamorphic Rock Lab / Reynolds Met Study Sheet / Rock & Mineral Review Site

Plate Tectonics
  Plate Puzzle / PT Map / FR: Colliding Continents / PT Vocab 1 / Vocab 2 / PT Lab Answer Sheet / Fossil Map / Plate Tectonics, Pt 2
  Hawaiian Island Lab / New Plate Tectonic Lab / Fossil Pieces / Plate Map / Puzzle Pieces / Lat/Long Map / Hawai'i / Plot EQ & Volc
  PT Review Worksheet / Volc & EQ World Map

Volcanoes
  Volcanoes Lecture / Volcanoes & Volcanic Hazards SS / Landforms- Volcanoes 

Earthquakes
  Earthquake Lab / FR: Japan's Killer Quake / Epicenter & Magnitude Lab / Supervolcano / Mercalli Lab / Epicenter Lab

Weathering
  FR: Weathering & Soil
  Weathering Lecture

Historical Geology
  FR: Historical Geology This 10-part video is > 1 hour. Complete it at home. / FR: Geologic Time 
  ​Earth History Lecture / Hist Geo Lab, Pt 1

Mass Wasting
  ​FR: Mass Wasting / Lecture: Mass Wasting  Structural Geology / Mass Wasting Lab

Groundwater
  FR: Groundwater / Groundwater Lecture / NOVA: Sinkholes

Running Water
  Streams & Flooding Lecture / FR: Running Water, Part 2 / Shorty: Dowsing / River Lab / FR: Running Water, Part 1 
  Shorty 8: Colorado River / Landforms - Rivers Lab  / Shorty: Eager Beaver

Wind & Waves
  FR: Waves

Deserts
  FR: Grazing & Soil / Sahel Activity

Geologic Structures
  FR: Geo Structures / Geologic Structures Lecture 

Earth Resources

Maps
  Phoenix Topo Map / Review Phoenix Topo & Rivers / Topo Map Intro / √ AZ Map / Topo Lab 1 / Lat & Long / Topo Legend / Union Hills Lab
  Map / Phx Topo Lab / Profile Lab / AZ & Ka Lae Map Lab 

Exam Archives
  Exam 2 Review / Review 1 - Review 2 - External Review / Rock & Mineral Exam / Spring '18 Lecture Review 
  Mineral & Rock Exam Answer Sheet / Review All Minerals & Rocks

Shorty Assignments
Soil Cowboys / Tetraethyl Lead / Rivers / Navajo Coal Mining / Minamata
Determining Composition

Various Films
  Earth: The Operator's Manual (ETOM) / Poisoned Waters / Gasland / Ecology: Barry Commoner's Viewpoint
  How the Earth Was Made / Raging Planet / How Much is Earth Worth? / Planet Earth - Fresh Water / Faces of Earth
  F.L.O.W. Video (For Love of Water) / 

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