Geology

Tutor: Peter Jackson

Nunawading U3A

 

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The Lectures

Geological Time

Part 1          Part 2

 

Minerals

An Introduction to Minerals

 

Rocks

An Introduction to Rocks Types

 

Plate Tectonics

Plate Techtonics: Theory

Continental Drift

The Floor of the Ocean

Sea Floor Spreading

Oceanic Volcanoes

Converging Plate Boundaries

Orogenic Belts

Related links:

Plate Tectonic animations

      A slow one             A more rapid one

The widening of the Atlantic Ocean

Guest lectures
from Peter Browne
Aggregates 1      Aggregates 2
from Allan Rossiter
Is there a major tungsten (+tin-molybdenum- gold) province present?
Volcanoes

 

Crystallography

 

The Geology of Santorini

 

Earthquakes and Seismology

 

The Earth's Interior

 

Skarns

 

Geisen deposits

 

Hydrology and Hydrogeology

 

Microscopic indentification of minerals    Part 1    Part 2

 

Soils

 

Rivers and sedimentary structures

 

Carbinates

 

Igneous RocksArctic Sink Holes

 

Arctic Sink Holes

 

Snowball Earth Hypothesis

 

Evaporites

 

The Galapagos Islands

 

Metamorphic Rocks    Part 1       Part 2

 

1816      The Summer that never was

 

Geology of Gold Depoits    Part 1       Part 2       Part 3

 

The Cascades

 

Surface Processing Glaciers and Glaciation

 

Carbonate Rocks

 

Environmantal Impacts in Mining

 

The Channelled Scablands of Washington State USA Look towards the end of the Useful links area for videos relating to scablands.

 

Columbia River Flood Basalts

 

Sulphide Minerals       Part 1       Part 2

 

Planetary Geology

 

Geological Maps

 

Ore Deposits and Processes

 

Gold Fields Excursion 2024

 

Western Victoria coast

 

The Great Ocean Road Field Trip (2023)

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In November 2024 Terry Hart was the guest speaker at Field Naturists Club of Victoria his presentation was

Weather, Climate and Geology
An embedded link:
EUMETSAT: A year of weather 2023

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The Main Players    (Links are underlined) :

Abraham Ortelius    1527 - 1598

Nicolas Steno    1638 - 1686

Domenico Guglielmini     1655 - 1710

James Hutton    1726 - 1797

Rene Hauy    1743 - 1822

William Smith    1769 - 1839

Antonio Snider-Pelligrini    1802 - 1885

Alfred Wegener    1880 - 1930

Hugo_Benioff    1899 - 1968

Harry Hammond Hess     1906 - 1969

Laurence Morley    1920 - 2013

Drummond Mathews    1931 - 1997

Fred J Vine    1939 -

 

 

 

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Instruments of Measurement     (Links are underlined) :

The     Magnetometer

Alvin     the under water robot.

 

 

 

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Interesting Links     (Links are underlined)

Siccar Point

A new species of Mukupirna (Diprotodontia, Mukupirnidae) from the Oligocene of Central Australia sheds light on basal vombatoid interrelationships

What really happened on Whakaari/White Island?

Meteorite crater discovered  while drilling for gold in outback WA estimated to be 100 million years old.

A small peice of Australia   on its way to Mars

Footprints reveal    giant carnivorous dinosaurs  the length of a bus wandered Australia.

Fred Watson's article on     Tracking Down a Phantom Crater.

The age of     the Earth.

Earliest life found in ancient      Aussie rocks.

How the      Bungle Bungles    got their stripes.

The     Smithsonian Institution    web page.

 

 

 

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Videos to Listen:    (Links are underlined)

In Conversation with Richard Fidler
Palaeontologist John Long    discusses missing links:    How a fish with tiny fingers changed history

Palaeontologist Diego Garcia-Bellid    Ancestors like aliens:    Clues from the Cambrian explosion

 

 

 

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Videos to Watch:    (Links are underlined)

Murray Orr, President of BESS, inc. on our most precious    Beaumaris fossil heritage.

Australian Alps.

Some extra-terrestrial geology. Look in detail at the surface of another planet; a great film taken by the   Mars Rovers.
Read about the making of this film   here.

 

The Deniliquin Structure    The Largest Impact Crater on the Planet; Hidden in Australia

 

Continental drift    Fred Vine explaining Paleomagnetic reversals

 

Dating of rocks using the     Isochrone Plot

 

 

 

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Useful Links:    (Links are underlined)

To download Australian Geological maps:
1. Enter the    AUSGIN Geoscience Portal.
2. Centre the area of interest on your screen
3. Zoom into the area of interest. Use the slider at the top right carefully
4. Click on "add Data" at upper left
5. Select what you want - "Geological Maps" and click
6. Click on "Scanned 250K Geological Maps"
7. Then it gets tricky - you need to know the name of the sheet - try MELBOURNE
8. Click on "Add Data to map"
9. Click on tbe Light Brown area that drops down on the right hand side of the screen
10. Click on MELBOURNE (on the left)
11. Choose the resolution of the map you wish to View/Download
The Field Naturalists Club of Victoria

 

If you have grandchildren or young friends who are looking for a different party idea, how about a Cosmology Party.   Look at:   Stones, Bones and Stars
The children will get to handle crystals, a meteorite, dinosaur teeth and to see rock from the moon.

Artificial Intelligence:  Like to try ChatGPT, Here's how

Links suggested by Sally

Video on    Missoula Flood Rhythmites

Video on    Gardena Cliffs Rhythmites

Nick Zentner, Lecturer at Central Washington Uni.    Endless lectures/ interviews/excursions etc!!

Videos from Bruce Bjornstad on    Ice Age flood-scapes

Video on making the    Dry Falls animation

Videos from Tom Foster on    Huge Floods

 

 

 

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Interesting Images:    (Click on the image for more details)

Kummakivi is in Finland

 

Kjeragbolten is in Norway

 

 

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Cartoons and Videos to make us Giggle:    (Links are underlined)

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Sheldon debunks    Astrology.

The Galaxcy Song from    Monty Python.

 

Tom Lehrer's   The Elements

 

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An allotropic encounter

 

Roman mines in the UK

 

 

 

 

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Any comments or suggestions, or if you spot any spelling mistakes or links that fail to open, please contact
Tony Heyes by email:     Tony.Heyes@gmail.com

 

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For parsimonious reasons I have tacked this web page on to my existing web site.

The address of this page is

http://sonicpathfinder.org/U3A/Geology
but if this is hard to remember simply go to my web site:
www.sonicpathfinder.org
and follow the links starting with the link to "U3A Resources" in the cyan box very near the top of the page.

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HOWEVER: One may now reach this page from the Nunawading U3A web page.   Simply click on "Class Notes" and then from the drop down menu "Geology Class Notes".  Finally click on the words "Peter Jackson's Class Notes".

 

 

 

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This web page has been written by Tony Heyes
of Perceptual Alternatives

 


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