WELCOME TO VAGABOND GEOLOGY WHERE GEOLOGY ROCKS!
2014 Fall - Our World, Our Resources
Don Beaumont & his Vagabond adventurers, Sandi Phillips & Rocky Romero, research the geology and geologic treasures of our world and it's resources, specifically the status and future of our forests, our fresh water, our rocks and minerals, and our hydrocarbons.
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Course Handout - Outline
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Course Handout - Poster
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Session 1 - Geology Creates Resources: overview of earth, it's surface processes and surface evolution leads us to understand how geology created the environment of our natural resources (Rocky); (8.5MB)
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Session 2 - An overview of the forests of the world and how North America's forests compare; sources and uses of forests; the carbon cycle (Sandi);
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Session 3 - Rocks & Minerals: What are minerals; a review of how rocks are formed, where they are located and how they erode sometimes to great soils; These soils were occupied by early civilizations (Don);
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Session 4- Hydrocarbons: What are they? where do they come from?; could they be made without organic origins?; supply & demand, worldwide and USA for gas and oil; where do our imports come from; hydrocarbons and the energy big picture; hydrocarbon CO2 emissions (Rocky) (2.8MB)
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Session 5 - Water: theories on the origins of water on Earth; the water cycle; groundwater & aquifers; groundwater vs surface water; water sources & uses; energy from water: hydroelectric & geothermal; future of water (Sandi) (13.8MB)
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Session 6 - Using Google Earth as a tool to understand how early civilizations formed and used river floodplains with it's rich soils for farming; using Google Earth to explore the Grand Canyon (Sandi & Rocky)
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Session 6 - Google Earth files used in this class can be loaded from this single file below. Put this file anywhere in your computer, start Google Earth, click "file/open" and point to this file and the files contained therein will be automatically loaded into your Google Earth (Rocky) (460kb)
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