This website for this course (12.001 Introduction to Geology, Spring 2008) is made available as part of the MIT OpenCourseWare project. It includes a syllabus, readings, lecture notes, laboratory practicals, assignments and handouts. The course introduces "major minerals and rock types, rock-forming processes, and time scales; temperatures, pressures, compositions, structure of the Earth, and measurement techniques; geologic structures and relationships observable in the field; sediment movement and landform development by moving water, wind, and ice; crustal processes and planetary evolution in terms of global plate tectonics with an emphasis on ductile and brittle processes." The notes are available as PDF files.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Earth--Atmospheric--and-Planetary-Sciences/12-001Spring-2008/CourseHome/
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