WVGES: CATS Environmental Geology, Fall 2001--September 24 Notes

	Geoscience Education in the Mountain State:
	CATS Earth Science Connections III
	Environmental Geology Telecourse

Weekly Course Notes: September 24, 2001 (Show 3)

Outline

Dr. Deb and Dr. Bob

Slinky in the Classroom
Recap of WVSTA Meeting
West Virginia Through Geologic Time
- A Teacher's Guide CD
- Volcanic Evidence in the Rocks of West Virginia
A Science Fair Without a Volcano? Unlikely!
Adjuncts and Alternatives

Break

Dr. Jack and Dr. Bob

Plate Tectonics and Volcanoes
There Are Volcanoes and Then There Are Volcanoes
Lava, Ash, Gases, and Mudflows...Oh My!
Geothermal Power
Preview of Show #4: Soils, Weathering, Mass Wasting, Subsidence

Historic Volcanoes With Plinian Eruptions

Vesuvius 79 AD
Tambora 1815
Krakatoa 1883

History (early vulcanologists)

Pliny the Elder (AD 23-79)
- Wrote a massive compendium Natural History (37 books)
- August AD 79--while serving as commander of the fleet he noticed a cloud rising from Vesuvius
- Sailed toward the volcano to observe more closely and provide aid
- Left the shaking villa and was asphyxiated in the field
Pliny the Younger (his nephew and adopted son)
- "After the dust settled" he wrote of the events--shaking houses, falling rocks, noxious fumes and intense darkness caused by the volcanic cloud
Anthanasius Kircher (1602-80)
- Unofficial chief scientist for the Vatican
- Mount Vesuvius erupted in 1631 and he lowered himself into the fuming, bubbling vent

Paleozoic
Cenozoic		Quaternary unconsolidated material Igneous intrusives in Pendleton Co; SW PA Trimble Knob in Monterey, VA (US 220)
Mesozoic		Mesozoic-age strata not present in WV
	Permian	Permian-age strata not present in WV
	Pennsylvanian	Volcanic ash
	Mississippian
	Devonian	Many volcanic ash layers
	Silurian
	Ordovician	Volcanic ash
	Cambrian	Volcanic ash
Precambrian (the basement rocks in WV)		LATE Greenstone (metamorphosed basalt) in Western MD EARLY

Links

Volcano Web Sites

Dr. Robert Behling (rbehling@wvu.edu)

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