Exam 2 Topics

1. Sea Floor Geology
   Seismic Reflection: Tutorial
   Black Smoker Life
   Extremophiles
   Microplankton
   Corals
   Marine Life Identification
   Marine Geography

2. Ocean Intro
   size, major oceans, depth, marine units

3. +Formation of the Earth and Oceans
   differentiation, continents, ocean floor
   atmosphere and oceans

4. +Plate Tectonics

• Plate Tectonics Quizzes PT1 and PT2

• Plate Tectonics CD-ROMs

• Textbook Student Website and Study Aids

• Marine Geology;
  Black Smokers, Tufa Towers, Coastlines, Islands, 
  Manganese Nodules, Ninety-East Ridge, Ophiolites, etc.

• Pacific Sea Floor Mapping

• Volcanoes Links

• Marine Biology and Deep Sea Life

• General Ocean Directory

 

Recommended Videos:  

• Earth Revealed: pt. 4 The Sea Floor

• Earth Revealed: pt. 13 Vulcanism

• MV21480  Planet Earth: The Blue Planet

• MV21020  4000 Meters Under the Sea

• Earth Revealed: pt 5  The Birth of a Theory
  Earth Revealed: pt 6  Plate Dynamics

• Video seen in class: Fire Under the Sea MV 23224

• Film seen in class: Volcano: Surtsey

Video seen in class:
Fire Under the Sea MV 23224
Very brief synopsis
Another very brief synopsis
Another very brief synopsis

Film seen in class:
Volcano: Surtsey - not on video; only available for viewing once during class time;
not available outside of class
Very brief synopsis
Info about Surtsey Island
Surtsey
Surtsey - more detailed geologic info