Tuesday, December 1, 2009

video: Metamorphic Rocks Introduction

View both videos on metamorphic rocks.

Part 1:




Part 2:

Monday, November 30, 2009

video: Sedimentray rocks introduction

I recommend you follow this link to my actual youtube page (http://www.youtube.com/user/MisterGazda) and then watch full screen and in HD. Enjoy.

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

HONORS HW: Alaska Glacial Rebound reading

Morgan DeBoer opened a nine-hole golf course, above, at the mouth of Glacier Bay in 1998 on land that did not exist when his family settled in the area 50 years ago.




Glaciers around Juneau are receding 30 feet or more each year.

Read the article below for Tuesday 5/26. It discusses an interesting - and perhaps surprising - consequence of global warming.



http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/science/earth/18juneau.html?_r=1&em

Monday, April 6, 2009

HONORS HW: watch this talk for Wed 4/8

The link below is to a talk given by physicist David Deutsch. It is titled What is our place in the cosmos? We aren't on this chapter yet, but we'll be getting to it soon.

Assignment: Watch the first 7 minutes of this talk. The way he presents the utterly HUGE scale of the universe is very cool.

Enjoy.


http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/david_deutsch_on_our_place_in_the_cosmos.html

Thursday, February 26, 2009

reading: Montauk Lighthouse due Wed 3/4


For Wed 3/4 you need to read 2 articles: this one on the lighthouse in Montauk, NY and the article in the post below this one about the Grand Canyon.

Montauk Point Lighthouse on the tip of Long Island, NY - built 1796



map of the area - notice where it is located on Long Island

Montauk Lighthouse as viewed from the Atlantic



Montauk Lighthouse erosion:
New York Times
print date: Nov 21, 2006

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/21/science/earth/21comm.html?scp=3&sq=montaul%20lighthouse&st=cse