EAS105 : The Dynamic Earth through time

WWW links for Winter Term 2016

Week 1 - Introduction

• Mineral Information Institute How many resources will you use in your lifetime?
• Population reference bureau 2009 (PDF)
• Expanding Earth (Neal Adams)
• Scuba diving between two plates (Iceland)

• The Rise and Fall of Land Bridges
• Mammals and Land Bridges G.G. Simpson (1940)

• Atlas of Canada (NRCan) Lots of maps of rock type, age, hazards etc.

Week 2 - Minerals

• Amethyst Galleries Mineral properties listed by class
• WebMineral.com Database of mineral structures with 3-D views
• Canadian Mineral deposits (Interactive map from Natural Resources Canada)
• Gold prospecting in Edmonton
• Gold mining (The Big Picture)

Week 3 - Igneous rocks and volcanos

• Introduction to igneous Rocks : Lynn Fichter, James Madison University
• Spectacular exposures of dykes in Antarctica Norwegian Polar Institute
• Do volcanos emit more carbon dioxide than people , Article by Terry Gerlach, Eos, 2011

Pyroclastic flows

• 2009 Pyroclastic flow at Merapi (YouTube)
• 1991 Pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan (YouTube)
• Pyroclastic flows at Mount Sinabung, Sumatra, January 21 2014 (Youtube)
• 2006 pyroclastic flows at Augustine Volcano - timelapse movie (YouTube)
• KLM flight 867 : USGS fact sheet

Explosions

• Explosion and sonic boom at Mount Tavurvur, 2014, PNG (YouTube)
• Explosion at Volcan Calbuco, 2015, Chile (YouTube)
• Explosions at Sakurajima Volcano, 2015, Japan (YouTube)

Antarctic volcanos

• Fire and ice , Journal from Martyn Unsworth about expedition to Mount Erebus, Antarctica, in 2014

Lava flows and lava lakes

• Movie of lava lake - Erta Ale
• Movie of lava lake - Nyiragongo
• Kilauea - Pahoehoe lava YouTube
• Kilauea - lava entering the ocean (YouTube)
• Kilauea - lava entering the ocean (YouTube)
• Kilauea - fire fountain and aa lava versus a pickup truck (YouTube)
• Blue lava in Indonesia Huffington Post January 16 2014

Large eruptions

• The Next eruption of Krakatoa Daily Mail, July 2009
• Devastation and recovery at Mount St. Helens (1979-2011) Time lapse photos, NASA Earth Observatory
• Are we ready for the next volcanic catastrophe? Uturuncu listed as #2 on the watch list, March 2015

Canadian volcanos

• Canadian Volcanoes (NRCan)
• NRCan Atlas of Canada Look for "Major volcanos"
• Volcanoes of Canada , Detailed article by Cathie Hickson, NRCan, 2006

Yellowstone

• Yellowstone supervolcano 'even more colossal' BBC, December 10 2013
• Nowhere to hide, Edmonton Sun, March 8, 2014 (print)
• Canadian researcher studies catastrophic “supervolcanos”, Radio Canada International, March 17, 2014

Week 4 - Sedimentary rocks

• Introducton to sedimentary Rocks : Lynn Fichter, James Madison University
• Landslides in Edmonton
• Turtle Mountain and the Frank Slide
• Sediment transport movies
• Coal production around the world : Photos from The Big Picture (Boston Globe)

Oil and gas

• Abiogenic origin of petroleum
• Oil price history
• Athabasca oil sands development (1984-2011) Time lapse photos, NASA Earth Observatory

Week 5 - Metamorphic rocks

• Geothermal regime in the Western Canada Sedimentary Basin
• Drilling into the San Andreas Fault (SAFOD)
• Metamorphic rocks in Mount Everest : Dr. Mike Searle, Oxford University
• Metamorphic notes : Lynn Fichter, James Madison University
• McGill asbestos study flawed, epidemiologist says CBC, February 2012
• Canada's ugly secret CBC, The National, June 30, 2010

Week 6 - Structural geology (folds and faults)

• Our Earth as Art : NASA eBook, images of the Earth from Landsat-7
• Richat Dome, Mauritania : Earth as Art, NASA, eBook, page 109
• Folds in the Zagros Mountains : Earth as Art, NASA, eBook, page 151
• Geological structures : Gallery by Dr. John Waldron
• 2008 Sichuan earthquake : Photos by Martyn Unsworth
• Turkish earthquakes : Photos by Martyn Unsworth

Week 7 - Reading week

Week 8 - Geochronology and the Age of the Earth

• Theory of the Earth : James Hutton (1795)
• Archbishop Ussher's chronology : Wikipedia summary
• Geological Timescale (2009) : Geological Society of America (PDF)
• International Stratigraphy Chart (2010) : International Commission on Stratigraphy (PDF)
• Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point list : International Commission on Stratigraphy
• List of GSSPs : Wikipedia summary

Week 9 - PreCambrian

• Snowball Earth : Evidence for Proterozoic glaciations
• Ediacaran fossils in Canada
• First Animal on Earth Was Likely the Sea Sponge : Discovery News, February 2016
• Study zeros in on plate tectonics' start date New research gives date ~ 3 Ga (Science, February 2016)

Week 10 - Paleozoic

• Lyell's classification of the Tertiary
• Geological History of the Appalachians
• Paleogeography of North America : Ron Blakey
• Animations of Burgess Shale creatures
• Youtube Movie of Burgess Shale

Week 11 - Mesozoic

• Theories of the Triassic-Jurassic extinction Bristol University
• The shifting face of a 200-million-year-old mystery : Geological studies in Somerset (BBC)
• Central Atlantic Magmatic Province , Greg McHone, Auburn University
• How did pterosaurs take-off? (National Geographic Magazine)
• Major oilfields offshore Brazil Formed in Mesozoic as South Atlantic rifted open (Rich Minerals)
• Iridescent feathers on Cretaceous dinosaurs National Geographic - March 2012
• Some dinosaurs survived ...... Article from UAlberta Express News - January 2011

Week 12 - Cenozoic

• Does carbon dioxide explain the rise and fall of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
• Plate Tectonic History of NE Pacific : Animations by Tanya Atwater
• Ice Age Earth and Sea Level Changes : Animations by Tanya Atwater
• Geoscape Calgary Poster describing geological history of Calgary, with good figures of Ice Age
• Geoscape Edmonton Poster describing geological history of Edmonton, with good figures of Ice Age
• Foothills Erratic Train
• Pleistocene glaciers and geography : North America, Asia and Europe

Week 13 - Earthquakes

• Animations of seismic waves
• Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989) on Youtube
• Chile earthquake (2007) on Youtube
• Steve Dutch's earthquake notes
• Recent earthquakes in Canada : Natural Resources Canada
• IRIS seismic monitor : Real time map of recent earthquakes
• 10 largest earthquakes since 1900 : United States Geological Survey

• Seismic waves music video (Youtube)
• 2011 : animation of a year of earthquakes (Youtube)

Cascadia megathrust earthquakes

• 1700 Cascadia Earthquake : Natural Resources Canada (NRCan)
• 1700 Cascadia Earthquake : Wikipedia
• Catastrophic Earthquake Preparedness : Report by Auditor General of BC (March 2014)

Indian Ocean Tsunami (2004)

• Indian Ocean Tsunami - collection of videos

Japan earthquake (March 11 2011)

• Earthquake summary (USGS)
• Poster summary (USGS)
• Collection of amateur videos (The Guardian)

Chile earthquake (April 1 2014)

Animation of tsunami crossing the Pacific , WIRED blog, April 3, 2014

Week 14 - Geology of the solar system

• Mars on GoogleEarth
• Flight into Valles Marineris
• Martian meteorites

• Magellan radar images.
• Robotic exploration of Venus – NASA (YouTube)
• NASA’s return to Venus : Yahoo video (10 minutes)

Last updated April 2014