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Lecture One - Plate Tectonics and Surface Processes
What can be said about the relati...,
How is it that the moon and earth...,
What are the movements of the pla...
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Lecture Two - Divergent boundaries or spreading centres (rifting and drifting)
Define convergent divergent and t...,
Describe a wilson cycle,
What is rifting and how does it o...
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Prac Two - Folds, cross sections and measuring rocks
What are the basic parts of a fold,
What are the basic fold shapes,
What are the basic fold orientations
9
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Lecture Three - Convergent boundaries (subduction zones and continental collisions)
Do mors create new lithosphere or...,
Does the denser or less dense lit...,
Lable the oceanic arc created by ...
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Lecture Four - Fold morphology
What is structureal geology,
What scales can folds be found,
What is the general rule for whet...
15
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Lecture Five - Fabrics and folds
What scales can folds occur at,
What are foliation and lineations,
What happens to rock when it is s...
9
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Lecture Six - Faults and shear zones
What does a cross section of the ...,
Are faults scale independant,
What is a fault and what is a she...
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Lecture Seven - Extension tectonics
When does crustal extension occur,
Show how progressive development ...,
Explain how normal faulting can c...
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Lecture Eight - Strike slip tectonics
What is oblique convergence or di...,
What is transpression and transte...,
What is a bend or jog
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Lecture Nine - Stress and strain
Define strain,
Define stress,
What types of stresses exisit in ...
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Review Lecture One - Plate tectonics and structural geology
Show how the earth convects,
What are the three main kinds of ...,
Where do the deepest earthquakes ...
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Lecture Twelve - Igneous and metamorphic geology
On what time scale did the earth ...,
What is the physical and chemical...,
Explain the characteristics of th...
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Lecture Thirteen - Igneous and metamorphic geology II
In which settings can the same ki...,
What kinds of magmas are formed f...,
Draw out the diagram of rocks for...
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Lecture Fourteen - Igneous and metamorphic geology III
What three factors contribute to ...,
What is the spectrum of igneous r...,
What characteristics do intrusive...
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Lecture Fifteen - Igneous and metamorphic geology IV
What three factors are used to id...,
How can igneous rocks be classifi...,
What are some pairs of igneous ro...
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Lecture Sixteen - Introduction to metamorphism
What is metamorphism,
What happens during recrystalisation,
What happens during phase change
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Lecture Seventeen - Metamorphic processes and occurrences I (how to classify metamorphic rocks)
What are the factors which need t...,
Describe foliation,
What is a progression of foliated...
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Lecture Eighteen - Metamorphic processes and occurrences II
How is the intensity of metamorph...,
What are the primary sources of h...,
Which different metamorphic grade...
10
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Lecture Nineteen - Metamorphic processes and occurrences III
Why and how are different metamor...,
Where does metamorphism occur,
Explain contact thermal metamorphism
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Lecture Twenty - Rocks and minerals in geochemical reactions
Define a rock and a mineral,
What are the major mineral groups,
What is the difference between mi...
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Lecture Twenty One - Weathering: fluid rock reaction and making sedimentary rocks from igneous and metamorphic rocks
What is weathering,
What is physical weathering,
Explain chemical weathering
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Lecture Twenty Four - Review lecture
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Lecture Twenty Five - Sedimentary geology (basins)
How do plate tectonics control su...,
What is a basin,
Where do sediments come from
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Lecture Twenty Six - Particle transport and erosion of stationary particles
How can the way in which a sedime...,
What are the roles of water as an...,
How are particles transported
11
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Lecture Twenty Seven - Surface processes and sedimentary transport
In what ways can sediments be tra...,
What are the roles of water in se...,
Provide an overview of sedimentar...
11
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Lecture Twenty Eight - Surface processes and sedimentary textures
Define facies,
Define texture,
What is grain size in rock contro...
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Lecture Twenty Nine - Sedimentary facies analysis
What is a sedimentary facies,
What is a helpful about facies,
What are subenvironments
11
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Lecture Thirty - River (fluvial) environments, dynamics and successions
Summeries the different environme...,
What is geomorphology,
What are regional source influenc...
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Lecture Thirty One - Shelf environments and carbonate rocks
What are carbonates,
How are carbonates formed organic...,
What is whiting
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Lecture Thirty Two - Deep ocean sedimentary settings
Who was the first to go to the bo...,
What drilling projects have been ...,
What are the deep water sediment ...
16
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Lecture Thirty Three - Lithostratigraphy
What is the basic idea of stratig...,
What are the stratigraphic catego...,
What are the contact types of sed...
10
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Lecture Thirty Four - Biostratigraphy and chronostratigraphy
What is biostratigraphy,
What are index fossils,
What are biostratigraphic zones
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Lecture Thirty Five - Tectonic basins as sedimentary resting places
What is a basin,
Explain the diversity of basins,
What controls basin evolution
10
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