(copyright WCB/McGraw-Hill)
Meets Tu. Th. 1030-1145 in Mendocino1005
(Spring, 2001)
For information, email: PlummerCC@csus.edu
This is a very visually oriented course.
A great many slides will be shown along with movies and videos.
Images in this document are copyrighted
Images with blue or dark border may be clicked
on to view a larger image
| Diagram showing
convergent plate boundary (copyright WCB/McGraw-Hill) |
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The Peruvian
Andes (photo by C.C. Plummer) |
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"Black Smoker". Very hot water full of metalic sulfides spewed out into ocean at a mid-oceanic ridge. (Photo US Geologic Survey) |
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| Cubic crystals of fluorite (photo C.C. Plummer) |  |
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Two
specimens of granite. These solidified deep underground from
molten rock (magma). (Photo by C.C. Plummer) |
| The Sierra Nevada batholith from Mt. Clark. All of the rock is granite and formed deep underground. (photo by C.C. Plummer) |  |
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The eruption of Pinatubo
in the Philipines. (Photo by US Geological Survey) |
| Bryce Canyon National Park. Weathering along vertical cracks has resulted in the pinnacles that you see. (Photo by C.C. Plummer) |  |
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Nearly horizontal
layers of sedimentary rocks that formed in an ancient sea. The
region was later uplifted and carved into the Canadian Rocky
Mountains. ( Photo by C.C. Plummer) Man on right was Jake Breitenbach, who was the first American killed on Mt. Everest. |
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Photomicrograph
of metamorphic rock seen through polarized light.
(photo by C.C. Plummer) |
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Grand Canyon,
Arizona. Over a billlion years of geologic history is exposed
here. Click for enlargement |
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Precambrian rock in Ontario, Canada that has been deformed. It is over 1,000 million years old. (photo by C.C. Plummer) Click to enlarge |
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Crinoid
fossils. These animals lived on the sea floor over 250 million
years ago. Click on image to enlarge |
| Dinosaur bones (upper part of picture) at Dinosaur National
Monument. Dinosaurs existed from around 200 million to
65 million years ago. (Photo by C.C. Plummer) |
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