Class Notes

C.W. Post
Department of Earth and Environmental Science

Prof. V.J. DiVenere
Dept. of Earth and Environmental Science
C.W. Post Campus - Long Island University

Department Home Page	Term Papers
Dr. D. HomePage	Library Resources
GLY 511 Homepage	Calculators

Lecture Topics 2006
Midterm Review 2006
Final Review 2006

Minerals & Rocks in Brief	Geologic Structures in Brief
Stress and Strain - Rock Deformation

Isostacy and Geosynclines	Continental Drift to Plate Tectonics
Earthquake Seismology	Earth's Interior
Tectonic Plate Boundaries	Ridges and Trenches
Midocean Ridges	Continental Rifts
Oceanic Transforms	The Newark Rift Basin
Euler Poles and Fracture Zones	Continental Transforms
Subduction Zones	Continental Collisions
Hotspots	Driving Forces of Plate Motion
Are Hotspots Fixed?	Making Crust From Mantle

Geologic Timescale
Origin of the Earth	Early Earth History
Precambrian Geology	Formation of the Appalachians and Pangea
from Rodinia to Pangea (figure)	Pangea at 245 m.y. (figure)
Pangea Breakup and Petroleum	Pangea Breakup and the Western Cordillera
The Carbon Cycle and Earth's Climate	Past Ice Ages
Cenozoic Climate: From Greenhouse to Icehouse	Tectonic Timeline