- Introduction to Week 1
- 1.1 What is a rock?
- 1.2 Watch out for concrete
- 1.3 Rock textures
- 1.4 Identifying rock textures
- 1.5 Identifying rocks: going into the ‘field’
- 1.6 The rock cycle and plate tectonics
- 1.7 So, how old is the Earth?
- 1.8 And how do we know that?
- 1.9 What is plate tectonics? Continental drift and sea floor spreading - part 1
- 1.10 What is plate tectonics? Continental drift and sea floor spreading - part 2
- 1.11 Plate tectonics – part 1
- 1.12 Plate tectonics – part 2
- 1.13 Week 1 quiz
- 1.14 Summary of Week 1
- Introduction to Week 2
- 2.1 Opening up a smartphone
- 2.2 Where do the metals come from?
- 2.3 Pegmatite
- 2.4 Bauxite – amazing things that a lot of rain can do
- 2.5 From soil to soda cans
- 2.6 Getting bauxite from soda cans
- 2.7 Another source of Al
- 2.8 Sand, sandstone and quartzite
- 2.9 The geological sorting hat
- 2.10 From sands into sandstone and quartzite
- 2.11 Copper
- 2.12 Porphyry ore deposits
- 2.13 Bursting balloons of copper mineralisation
- 2.14 Porphyry copper ring of fire
- 2.15 Under ancient seas
- 2.16 What type of rock is oceanic crust?
- 2.17 Hydrothermal vents
- 2.18 Black smokers
- 2.19 How much ore for a metre of Cu cable?
- 2.20 Zones at Parys Mountain
- 2.21 Ancient people and metals
- 2.22 From ancient peoples to modern mines
- 2.23 Mineral maps
- 2.24 Week 2 quiz
- 2.25 Summary of Week 2
- Introduction to Week 3
- 3.1 Oil comes from the ground
- 3.2 Plastics and transport fuel
- 3.3 Fertilisers
- 3.4 What is oil?
- 3.5 Where does it come from?
- 3.6 Why doesn’t it just rot?
- 3.7 It’s a trap!
- 3.8 If it’s buried, how do we find it?
- 3.9 Seismic exploration – part 1
- 3.10 Seismic exploration – part 2
- 3.11 Biostratigraphy
- 3.12 Economics of oil production
- 3.13 More economics of oil
- 3.14 Week 3 quiz
- 3.15 Summary of Week 3
- Introduction to Week 4
- 4.1 Breaking and fixing our planet
- 4.2 Geological (extraction) in your pocket
- 4.3 Ice ages build the modern world
- 4.4 Aggregate extraction
- 4.5 Impact of dredging
- 4.6 Rare earth elements
- 4.7 Extraction and processing
- 4.8 Geoengineering: crazy ideas or will they save the planet?
- 4.9 The atmospheric bath tub
- 4.10 Interviews on Leverhulme centre for climate change remediation
- 4.11 What’s wrong with Dave Beerling’s big idea?
- 4.12 Small bugs solve a lot of problems
- 4.13 Toxic waters escape, but toxic conditions remain
- 4.14 Geology to the rescue!
- 4.15 Bioremediation – what survives, thrives
- 4.16 Week 4 quiz
- Final conclusion and goodbye
- References
- Further Reading
- Acknowledgements
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