Practical Geology

<p>Learn about the Earth’s history in a rock, a landscape, or a grain of sand from a seasoned field geologist who covers everything from backyard geology to the world’s most spectacular landforms.</p>

• By This Professor
• 01: Reading the Rocks
• 02: Observing a Landscape and Its Landforms
• 03: Find an Outcrop! Field Geology Up Close
• 04: Reading a River and the Nearby Land
• 05: The Beach: Spectacular Geology in Action
• 06: What Sedimentary Rocks Tell You
• 07: Desert Fans, Washes, Salt Lakes, and Dunes
• 08: Ice, Glacial Landforms, and Gravel Exposures
• 09: Limestone and Karst: What Deep Time Can Do
• 10: Reading Strata through Geologic Time
• 11: Reading Fossils: Life in the Geologic Past
• 12: Where and How to Look for Fossils
• 13: How Soils Form and Erode
• 14: Groundwater and Water Wells
• 15: Medical Geology: From Healthful to Harmful
• 16: Lava Flows and Volcanic Landscapes
• 17: Collecting Minerals and Crystals
• 18: Granite: Igneous Rocks That Form at Depth
• 19: Metamorphic Rocks and Tectonic Features
• 20: Got Marble? Non-Foliated Metamorphic Beauty
• 21: Is This Valuable? Gems and Meteorites
• 22: Hunting Gold and Other Valuable Minerals
• 23: Oil Geology, Oil Plays, and Oil Drilling
• 24: Human Landscapes and Practical Geology