Physical Geology index page

This is an index of web documents for the Spring 2005, Physical Geology course (GEOL 1170) taught at University of Nebraska - Omaha by Harmon Maher ©.

Course 'handouts':

Outlines of lectures - Part I - The stuff the earth is made of - levels of structure and building blocks:

Outline of lectures - Part II - Historical geology (stories of the earth) and geomorphology (surface processes).

Outline of lectures - Part III - The architecture of the earth, geophysics, tectonics and structures. Geologic resources and humanity.

Other resources:

1997 field trip images

Shell canyon in the Big Horn mountains of Wyoming showing deformed sediment rocks. What was this area like when the different layers of sediment were being deposited? How did the environment change as time progressed and different sediments were deposited? Why are the rocks deformed and when? Are there geologic resources here? Are there geologic hazards? Why does the canyon take the shape it does, and how long did it take to form? These are the types of questions that can be addressed in geology, and which this course can teach you to answer. This is the site where many of UNO's geology majors have taken geologic field camp, a capstone courses.

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