Earth Sciences 80A - Lectures

• Lecture 1 - Course Introduction
• Lecture 2 - From Rocks and Toenails to the Big Bang
• Lecture 3 - From the Big Bang to Our Solar Nebula
• Lecture 4 - From Nebular Dust to the Blue Planet: Accretion of the Earth and Formation of the Moon
• Lecture 5 - Earth Evolves and Life Begins: The Hadean and Archaen
• Lecture 6 - The Proterozoic and the Phanerozoic Explosion
• Lecture 7 - Geological Time: A Record of Catastrophes
• Lecture 8 - Extinctions
• Lecture 9 - A History of Great Deaths
• Lecture 10 - The Dynamic Earth and Plate Tectonics: The Catastrophe Engine
• Lecture 11 - Earthquakes: Faults and Seismic Waves
• Lecture 12 - Earthquakes: Recordings, Locating, Size and Destruction
• Lecture 13 - Seismic Waves: Faulting Direction and Earth Structure
• Lecture 14 - Earthquake Prediction and Hazard Mitigation
• Lecture 15 - Volcanoes: Basic Processes and Arc Volcanoes
• Lecture 16 - Volcanoes: Rifts and Hotspots
• Lecture 17 - Volcanic Products and Eruption Prediction and Hazard Mitigation
• Lecture 18 - Earth's Atmosphere: Composition, Energy Budget, Dynamics and Ozone
• Lecture 19 - Greenhouse Effect and Global Warming
• Lecture 20 - Weather: Winds and Rainstorms
• Lecture 21 - Floods: Natural and Human Induced
• Lecture 22 - Landslides, Debris Flows, Submarine Avalanches
• Lecture 23 - Human Induced "Geological" Catastrophes
• Lecture 24 - A Few More Human-Induced Disasters

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