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Intro Geology
Intro Geology
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1. Introduction to Geology
The textbook for this course is: Earth, An Introduction to Physical Geology (9th Ed.) by Tarbuck &
Lutgens. This course will follow the textbook closely so it will be a good resource to have. The
TurningPoint student response system (clicker) is also required for this course.
What is Geology?
Geology is a science: Greek "geo" = Earth, "logos" = discourse. So geology is the science of the Earth.
What processes?:
To understand these processes and the great amounts of time needed to see their lasting impacts, we
have to think about time in a whole new way in comparison to human perceptions of time. In geology, we
have to think in terms of deep time, in which processes may occur over millions of years.
Thats why geologists developed the geologic time scale to divide the long duration of Earth history into
numerous time divisions, dating all the way back to about 4600 million years ago!
Course Information
The expectations and schedule are shown in the course syllabus and lecture plan.
Course website:
http://www.uidaho.edu/~simkat/geol101.html