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GEOSC 10: Geology of the National Parks

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Module 2: Making Mountains and Earthquakes

  • Welcome to Module 2
  • Main Topics: Module 2
  • Plate Tectonics I: Death Valley
  • Pull-Apart Faults
  • Sea-Floor Spreading
  • Heat Inside the Earth
  • Plate Tectonics II: Yellowstone
  • Elastic Rebound Theory
  • Where Quakes Occur
  • Size of Earthquakes
  • Predicting Earthquakes
  • A Rocking Review
  • Module 2 Wrap-Up

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  • Tour the National Parks
    • Module 1: Science!
    • Module 2: Making Mountains and Earthquakes
      • Welcome to Module 2
      • Main Topics: Module 2
      • Plate Tectonics I: Death Valley
      • Pull-Apart Faults
      • Sea-Floor Spreading
      • Heat Inside the Earth
      • Plate Tectonics II: Yellowstone
      • Elastic Rebound Theory
      • Where Quakes Occur
      • Size of Earthquakes
      • Predicting Earthquakes
      • A Rocking Review
      • Module 2 Wrap-Up
    • Module 3: Mountain Building & Volcanism
    • Module 4: Mountain Building, Obduction, and Tsunamis
    • Module 5: Tearing Down Mountains: Weathering, Mass Movement, and Landslides
    • Module 6: Tearing Down Mountains: Groundwater & Rivers
    • Module 7: Glaciers, Ice, and Permafrost
    • Module 8: Coasts & Sea-level Changes
    • Module 9: Deep Time: Stratigraphy and the Sedimentary Record
    • Module 10: Uniformitarianism & the Age of the Earth
    • Module 11: Evolution & Extinction
    • Module 12: Biodiversity, Global Warming and the Future
    • Course Review
    • Acknowledgments

Course materials prepared by Richard Alley and Sridhar Anandakrishnan, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, Penn State.

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