Slide 1Ancient Greeks Golden Age of Astronomy - in Greece - 600 BC to 150 BC - said earth was round - estimated earths circumference - cataloged stars Slide 2 Geocentric…

Slide 1 Terraforming: Peat bogs Arable soil from regolith Slide 2 Organics Regolith: finely ground rock No organics, no carbon No soil nitrogen found so far Low potassium,…

Slide 1 WEATHERING MECHANISMS & PRODUCTS Mehrooz F Aspandiar CRC LEME WASM, Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology Slide 2 Weathering – why bother? Primary…

Slide 1 Slide 2 The Moon Slide 3 Atmosphere? There is none! There is none! The gravity of the Moon is too low to hold on to the molecules of an atmosphere. The gravity of…

Slide 1Running Water Day 1 Slide 2 Mass Movements Recap Rockfalls – A rockfall occurs when rocks or rock fragments _______ freely through the air Slides – In a slide,…

Slide 1 BellWork-- Name the crew of the Apollo 11 moon mission. Nobody ever remembers me – I was the pilot. I was the 2 nd man to walk on the moon. Everybody remembers…

Slide 1 Class 13b: Soils (pedology) Slide 2 What is soil? Not just dirt Slide 3 Soil components Parent material: Temperature and moisture Slide 4 Soil formation Bedrock breaks…

Slide 1 Rocks The Geologic Dictionary Slide 2 Rocks are made of Minerals (Minerals in Granite) Slide 3 Soil, sediment, weathered rock, regolith Slide 4 Rock Cycle Magma Igneous…