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Environmental Geology
Summer Semester 2008

GEOL 860

Instructor:  Dr. Mark Abbott
Office:  404 SRCC
Phone:  412-624-1408
Email:  mabbott1@pitt.edu

 

This course provides students with an awareness of the environmental problems we face today. Concepts of geochemical cycles and equilibrium will be examined. The impact of population growth and technological change upon the environment will be discussed. Detailed examples of environmental disruption will be presented, emphasizing climate change, volcanism, mass movements, oil spills, earthquakes, resource depletion, sea-level rise, greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, radon threats, etc.
Lecture Syllabus

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Lecture 1 Tuesday May 13

Lecture 2 Thursday May 15

Lecture 3 Tuesday May 20

Lecture 4 Thursday May 22

Lecture 5 Tuesday May 27

Lecture 6 Thursday May 29

Lecture 7 Tuesday June 3

Lecture 8 Thursday June 5

Lecture 9 Tuesday June 10

Lecture 10 Thursday June 12

Lecture 11 Tuesday June 17

Review and Final Thursday June 20

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