EARTH MATTERS: Environmental Geology CD-ROM
Jeremy Dunning and Lawrence Onesti,
Indiana University, Bloomington
This visually stunning, fully interactive student CD explores a broad range of topics and concepts central to the study of environmental geology. An electronic student supplement for Freeman's new Merritts, De Wet, and Menking Environmental Geology textbook, it can be successfully used as a supplement or an electronic lab source for any course where environmental issues are stressed.
FEATURES
- The accompanying 120-page electronic lab booklet offers clearly designed exercises that facilitate the use of the materials
- The web site contains ten traditional environmental geology labs that build on the lessons of the CD
- The discovery format stresses problem solving and "learning the science by doing the science"
- The CD features exceptionally lucid and scientifically accurate graphics and multimedia
- Lessons are illustrated by stunning original animations, beautiful photos, and diagrams of unparalleled clarity-in the Freeman Geology tradition
- QuickTime Virtual RealityTM field trips are a remarkable learning experience and enable users to explore distant sites of geological significance
- The lessons of the CD are organized into seven Modules consisting of Units, which can be explored in a few minutes each
- CD lessons are correlated to specific chapters and pages in Merritts, De Wet, and Menking's Environmental Geology and Press and Siever's Understanding Earth
MODULES AND UNITS
The lessons are presented as modules that are further subdivided into units, each of which can be explored in just a few minutes.
Materials and Processes
- Mineralogy
- Igneous Rocks
- Metamorphic Rocks
- Physical Properties
- The Rock Cycle
- Sedimentary Rocks
- Soils
- Weathering
- Capstone
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
- Plate Tectonics
- Stress States
- Magma Types
- Explosivity
- Capstone
Surface Processes
- Rivers
- Coastal Properties
- Wind
- Glaciers
- Capstone
Groundwater
- Saltwater Intrusion
- Darcy's Law
- Porosity and Permeability
- Capstone
Natural Hazards
- Volcanoes
- Flooding
- Earthquakes
- Mass Wasting
Waste Disposal
- Waste Types
- Site Selection
- Capstone
Resources and Sustainability
- Strategic Materials
- Resource Politics
- Public Policy
- Capstone
QTVRTM Field Trips
- Landfills
- Faults
- Tectonics
Web Site Labs
- Rocks: Origins and Evolution
- Volcanic Eruption and Public Policy Planning
- Earthquake Analysis
- Rivers, Erosion, and Weathering
- Mass Wasting
- Plate Tectonics
- Groundwater
- Waste Disposal
- Pollutants: Survey and Analysis
- Energy Resources
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