Earth’s Cooling System and Climate Change Subject of Research


The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Drexel University chemistry professor Dr. Alan Bandy to conduct research on Earth’s cooling system and how it affects climate change.

PART I: Our Island in Space

Ch 4. Basic Plate Boundaries

Ch 4. Formation of Ocean Crust

Ch 4. Transform Faulting

Ch 4. The Process of Subduction

Ch 4. Hot Spot Volcanoes

Ch 4. The Process of Rifting

Ch 4. Plate Boundaries

PART II: Earth Materials

Ch 5. Mineral Growth

Ch 6. What A Geologist Imagines: Volcanic Neck at Shiprock

Ch 6. What a Geologist Sees: Antarctic Sill

Ch 6. What A Geologist Sees: Pluton at Torres del Paines

Ch 6. Formation of Igneous Rocks at Mid-Ocean Ridges

Ch 7. What A Geologist Sees: Contact Between Basement and Cover

Ch 7. What a Geologist Sees: Formations in the Grand Canyon

Ch 7. Formation of Cross Beds

Ch 7. What a Geologist Sees: Crossbeds

Ch 7. What A Geologist Sees: Channel Deposits

Ch 7. Transgression and Regression

Ch 8. Foliation in Metamorphic Rock

Ch 8. What a Geologist Sees: Compositional Banding in Gneiss

PART III: Tectonic Activity of a Dynamic Planet

Ch 9. What a Geologist Imagines: Eruption of Vesuvius

Ch 9. Growth of A Stratovolcano

Ch 10. Types of Faults

Ch 10. What A Geologist Sees: Offset Fence along San Andreas Fault

Ch 10. Seismic Wave Motion

Ch 10. How a Seismograph Works

Ch 11. Development of Strain (pure and simple shear)

Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Offset Stream Channel Along San Andreas Fault

Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Fault Offsetting

Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Thrust Fault

Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Horsts and Grabens

Ch 11. What a Geologist Sees: Fold Trains in Ireland

Ch 11. Process of Folding

Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Flexural Fold

Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Flow Fold

Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Cleavage in an Anticline

Ch 11. What A Geologist Sees: Shear Movement

Ch 11. Development of A Collisional Mountain Belt

PART IV: History before History

Ch 12. Geologic History

Ch 12. What A Geologist Sees: Unconformity

Ch 12. Types of Unconformity

Ch 12. What A Geologist Sees: Stratigraphic Column

PART V: Earth Resources

Ch 14. Oil Formation and Trapping

PART VI: Processes and Problems at the Earth’s Surface

Ch 16. Cliff Retreat Along the Coast

Ch 17. Evolution of a Meandering Stream

Ch 17. What A Geologist Sees: Channeled Scablands

Ch 18. Beach Drift

Ch 22. Glacial Advance and Retreat

Ch 22. Milankovitch Cycles