EAS105 : Environment Earth

WWW links for Fall Term 2016

Week 1 - Introduction

Week 2 - Rocks, Minerals and Plate Tectonics

• Mineral Information Institute How many resources will you use in your lifetime?
• Atlas of Canada (NRCan) Lots of maps of rock type, age, hazards etc.
• Scuba diving between two plates (Iceland)
• Plate Tectonic History of NE Pacific : Animations by Tanya Atwater

Week 3 - volcanos

• Do volcanos emit more carbon dioxide than people , Article by Terry Gerlach, Eos, 2011
• Drilling into a supervolcano , BBC, September 2016

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 - 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)