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GEOSC 10: Geology of the National Parks

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Module 3: Mountain Building & Volcanism

  • Welcome to Module 3
  • Main Topics: Module 3
  • Crater Lake
  • The Ring of Fire
  • Olympic National Park
  • The Olympic Grocery
  • Mt. St. Helens
  • Hot Spot Volcanoes
  • Enrichment: Cinder Cone Volcanoes
  • Volcanic Hazards
  • Predicting Eruptions
  • Hawaii Volcanoes
  • A Rocking Review
  • Module 3 Wrap Up
  • Exercise #2 Images

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  • Tour the National Parks
    • Module 1: Science!
    • Module 2: Making Mountains and Earthquakes
    • Module 3: Mountain Building & Volcanism
      • Welcome to Module 3
      • Main Topics: Module 3
      • Crater Lake
      • The Ring of Fire
      • Olympic National Park
      • The Olympic Grocery
      • Mt. St. Helens
      • Hot Spot Volcanoes
      • Enrichment: Cinder Cone Volcanoes
      • Volcanic Hazards
      • Predicting Eruptions
      • Hawaii Volcanoes
      • A Rocking Review
      • Module 3 Wrap Up
      • Exercise #2 Images
    • 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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