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Investigations in Environmental Geology  (Geol 140)
Dr. Cheryl Waters-Tormey
Office:  119B Natural Sciences Bldg.
Phone: 828-227-3696
email:  cherylwt@wcu.edu

Office Hours for Spring 2006:
Mondays 1-3; Tuesdays & Thursdays 12:30-1:45;
or, by appointment

(upper right) Boudinage in granulites, central Australia.  Click on photograph see a larger picture.
(right) Tightly folded Banded Iron Formation, Barberton Greestone Belt, South Africa. 
    (lower right) Fault breccia, central Australia. Click on photographs see a larger picture. 


Click on button to get local NWS forcast for Cullowhee area.

 


Most downloads are pdf files, which you can open with Adobe Reader.  You probably already have this software on your computer (link to download is also at top of page).
  • Download course syllabus, which is subject to revision
  • Scroll down to the bottom of the linked paget to download graph paper printing software written by Phillipe Marquis (Windows OS).  Play around with the margins and divisions a bit to see what you need.
  • Links for lab
  • Pictures used in class:
    • Primary structures pictures (ppt file, 3 MB)
    • Some crystal-plastic and recovery microstructural processes, prepared by WCU undergraduate K.P. Watrous (ppt file, 9 MB)
    • Boudinage pictures (pdf of ppt file, ~2 MB)
    • Fold pictures (pdf of ppt file, ~2 MB)
    • Fracture pictures (pdf of ppt file, ~1 MB)
    • Mylonites & cataclasites pictures
  • EXAMS
    • February 16 (study guide, ~100 kb)
    • Around March 29 (study guide, ~100 kb)
    • Exam 3 (study guide, ~150 kb):  Thurs., May 4, 12-2:30
  • Tectonics links
    • Plate boundary map (download links on right)
    • Overview of plate tectonic theory and earth structure (USGS)
    • More on the development of and current plate tectonic theory (USGS)
    • Current and recent earthquakes (IRIS)
    • Volcanoes, current eruptions (Univ. North Dakota)
    • Paleogeography animations (Scotese)
    • Theory behind ocean openings (USGS)
    • Animation of magnetic reversals and seafloor magnetics: click on "Magnetic Reversal Video Along a Spreading Center"
    • World crustal maps, seafloor age, etc. (NOAA)
    • Fault motion animations (IRIS)




click on globe to see more spinning globes or images (NOAA/NGDC)


click on map to map of plates with underlying elevation/bathymetry (NASA image)


Last updated February 22, 2006