Earth Sciences 023a Planet Earth: Shaken and Stirred
Earth Sciences 123a The Dynamic Earth

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Introductory Material

  • Summary of SI units
  • Significant digits
  • Significant digits II
  • Review of some basic algebra and calculus

    Elements: Building Blocks of the Earth

  • Periodic table and atoms

    Stars: Element factories

  • Basic information about our Sun
  • Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram

    Tour of the solar system

  • Solar system
  • Titius-Bode Law *

    Earthquakes

  • Introduction to earthquakes *
  • Information about earthquakes in Canada
  • Ontario earthquake research project
  • Modified Mercalli Intensity Scale
  • Global seismic hazard project
  • Earthquake prediction
  • Earthquake visualization software download site (Alan Jones, SUNY-Binghamton)

    Volcanoes

  • How volcanoes work *
  • Glossary
  • Volcano monitoring techniques *

    Tsunamis

  • Tsunami! *
  • Tsunami Videos
  • Surviving a Tsunami

    Plate tectonics

  • Plate tectonics lecture notes *
  • Introduction to plate tectonics
  • Plate tectonics overview
  • Vines-Matthews-Morley hypothesis and plate tectonics
  • Magnetic stripes on the seafloor
  • Triple junctions
  • The Paleomap project
  • The Snowball Earth

    Earth's Interior

  • Age of Earth *

    Earth's magnetic field

  • William Gilbert and the Birth of Magnetism
  • Measuring Earth's magnetic field
  • The magnetosphere and aurorae
  • Van Allen radiation belts
  • What causes the aurorae?
  • Today's space weather
  • The magnetic north pole
  • The Geodynamo

    Page creator: D. Eaton
    Page updated: D. Eaton, Sept. 13, 2006