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Introduction
1. Physical Properties of Minerals
Elizabeth Johnson
2. Mineral Identification
3. Bowen's Reaction Series
4. Igneous Textures
5. Igneous Rock Identification
6. Sedimentary Rock Textures
7. Sedimentary Rock Identification
8. Metamorphic Rock Textures
9. Metamorphic Rock Identification
10. Introduction to Topographic Maps
11. Topography and Bathymetry
12. Contour Lines
13. Topographic Features
14. Latitude and Longitude
15. Scale and Slope
16. Applications: Plate Tectonics
17. Applications: Locating Topographic Maps
18. Applications: Magnetic Declination
19. Motion at Plate Boundaries
20. Global Positioning System
21. Azimuth
22. GPS Data and Plate Motion
23. Plate Motion Vectors
24. Plate Boundaries
25. What Type of Plate Boundary?
26. Original Horizontality and Superposition
27. Tilted Beds and Strike and Dip
28. Faults
29. Folds
30. Plunging Folds
31. Domes and Basins
32. Geologic Structures and Plate Tectonics
33. Principles of Relative Dating
Cindy Kearns and Elizabeth Johnson
34. Unconformities
35. Worked Example: Relative Geologic Time
36. Relative Ages 1
Elizabeth Johnson and Cindy Kearns
37. Relative Ages 2
38. Relative Ages 3
39. Relative Ages 4
40. The Geologic Time Scale
41. Relative Age Diagrams
42. Relative Ages Diagram 1
43. Relative Ages Diagram 2
44. Relative Ages Diagram 3
45. Relative Ages Diagram 4
46. Plate Motion Through Geologic Time
47. Geologic Map of North America
48. Reading a Geologic Map
49. California
50. Michigan
51. Utah
52. Pennsylvania
53. The Grand Canyon
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