WELCOME TO VAGABOND GEOLOGY WHERE GEOLOGY ROCKS!
2012 East Africa
Vagabond adventurers, Sandi Phillips & Rocky Romero, research the geology and geologic treasures of East Africa as the Vagabonds travel to Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Kenya & Egypt.
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Course Handout - Outline
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Course Handout - Poster
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Session 1 - Sandi provides an overview of the makeup of planet earth, the tectonic plate system on the surface and our life in Africa; Angola & South Africa (17.5MB)
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Session 2 - Rocky gives an overview of geologic time, the rock cycle, weathering & erosion and Africa. Then reviews political/demograhic/economic statistics of Zimbabwe, travels to Hwange National Park and discovers geology & fun on the Zambezi River and at Victoria Falls (16.5MB)
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Session 3 - Sandi presents plate tectonics and mountain building and takes us to Tanzania to see Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti Plains (30.2MB)
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Session 4 - Sandi looks at geologic folds and faults to give us an understanding of these important geologic features and we continue on our journey through Tanazania; Olduvai Gorge, source of historic archeological discoveries, and the Serengeti Plains.
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Session 5 - Rocky gives an overview of Geologic Maps & Volcanoes and takes us on a Kenyan Safari; Nairobi, Samburu, Mt Kenya, Lake Bogoria, Lake Nakuru, Rongai, Kericho, Maasai Mara, and Tsvao.
(21.7MB)
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Session 6 - Rocky provides an overview of Egypt's geography & history, finishes off a country by country demographic comparison, reviews the making of Egypt's geology over 200 million years, evaluates the flow and compostion of the Nile, and then finishes off with a Nile cruise to see the highlights of Aswan, Edfu, Luxor, the relocation of Abu Simbel and hunts for the Pharaoh's Tomb in the Great Pyramid of Giza.
(19.3MB)
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