1. The Earth System.- 2. Plate Tectonics: The Unifying Theory.- 3. Earth Materials: Minerals and Rocks4. Igneous Rocks: Solids from Melts.- 5. Sedimentation: Rocks Formed by Surface Processes.- 6. Metamorphism: Alteration of Rocks by Temperature and Pressure.- 7. Deformation: Modification of Rocks by Folding and Fracturing.-8. Clocks in Rocks: Timing the Geologic Record.- 9. Early History of the Terrestrial Planets.- 10. History of the Continents.- 11. Geobiology: Life Interacts with the Earth.- 12. Volcanoes.- 13. Earthquakes.- 14. Exploring Earth's Interior.- 15. The Climate System.- 16. Weathering, Erosion, and Mass Wasting: Interactions Between the Climate and Plate Tectonic Systems.- 17. The Hydrologic Cycle and Groundwater.- 18. Stream Transport: From Mountains to Oceans.- 19. Winds and Deserts.- 20. Coastlines and Ocean Basins.- 21. Glaciers: The Work of Ice.- 22. Landscape Development.- 23. The Human Impact on Earth's Environment.
John Grotzinger is a field geologist interested in the
evolution of the Earth's surface environments and biosphere. His
research addresses the chemical development of the early oceans and
atmosphere, the environmental context of early animal evolution,
and the geologic factors that regulate sedimentary basins. He has
contributed to developing the basic geologic framework of a number
of sedimentary basins and orogenic belts in northwestern Canada,
northen Siberia, southern Africa, and the western United States. He
received his B.S. in geoscience from Hobart College in 1979, an
M.S. in geology from the University of Montana in 1981, and a Ph.D.
in geology from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
in 1985. He spent three years as a research scientist at the
Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory before joining the MIT
faculty in 1988. From 1979 to 1990, he was engaged in regional
mapping for the Geological Survey of Canada. He currently works as
a geologist on the Mars Exploration Rover team, the first mission
to conduct ground-based exploration of the bedrock geology of
another planet, which has resulted in the discovery sedimentary
rocks formed in aqueous depositional environments.
Thomas H. Jordan is director of the Southern California
Earthquake Center and W. M. Keck Foundation Professor of Earth
Sciences at the University of Southern California. As SCEC's
principal investigator since 2002, he has overseen all aspects of
its program in earthquake system science, which currently involves
over 600 scientists at more than 60 universities and research
institutions worldwide (http://www.scec.org). The center's mission
is to develop comprehensive understanding of earthquakes and use
this scientific knowledge to reduce earthquake risk. Jordan
established SCEC's Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake
Predictability and has been the lead SCEC investigator on projects
to create and improve a time-dependent, uniform California
earthquake rupture forecast. He currently chairs the International
Commission on Earthquake Forecasting for Civil Protection
(appointed by the Italian government), is a member of the
California Earthquake Prediction Evaluation Council, and has served
on the Scientific Earthquake Studies Advisory Committee of the U.
S. Geological Survey. He is an author on approximately 190
scientific publications, including two popular textbooks.
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