I'm taking geology online right now and theres no lecutres, just readings and i really appreciate how detailed this is

This guy speaks on my level. I’m only a chemical engineer, but I love watching these geological presentations from my man cave. Thank you.

After (binge) watching the series so far, I must conclude that this is the best and most in depth introduction to geology I have come across. The structure is brilliant actually, giving a great insight into the processes from the very start which makes it so much easier to understand and reproduce for practical purposes. Really enjoyable.

Thank you for posting this series. It's still expanding minds years on from its creation and from continents away! Thanks for the teaching!

Thank you! I am thrilled to find these lectures. Geology class at home, Finally!

Been binge watching from 1 to here on 150% speed because I am impatient. Very interesting stuff, very happy you have put this out here for anyone to watch and learn. Thank you!

I studied Geology and received an undergraduate degree at a Canadian University back in the 1980s. Sure wish the lectures at the time were as clearly and succinctly delivered as the ones on these videos.

Mind blown! I'm definitely going to watch part 3 and 4 again to let it sink in further. This is the first time I'm motivated to look more into chemistry/psychics as I had no interest in it at school and did very badly in those areas.

Absolutely love this video! Extremely educational, and would even be easy for middle and high school students to understand. exceptional video!! I can't wait to watch your other videos! Definitely worth a 100 thumbs up!!

PART 1: I got into becoming a major rock hound by first finding a good15 pounds of green aventurine while walking my dog in the cemetery. Then, walking my dog again in a dirt recycling center, I came upon a rock pile that had beautiful specimens in it, including a little citrine, amethyst and teeth quartz. That got me into studying rocks and minerals, but I realized that I was not knowledgeable enough to identify rocks and minerals. So, I studied all of geology for 7 years.

Great presentation. Flows well. Wish my instructors were this good. Rocks Rule !

Fascinating lectures! Thank you all for your amazing knowledge and willingness to teach us!

Perfect explanation and visuals, highly rate

Had to come back and revisit because I struggled. I'm so appreciative that you have made these videos available!

Professor is a GOAT

I am very happy to have found your channel. You have an amazing ability to teach and explain your subjects.

Excellent Video !!! I’ve been looking for video that CLEARLY explains what this video explains. Thank you! -college mineralogy, California

A lot to digest, but good basic discussion. Will have to view the video again and supplement it with the textbook. You are a great teacher. Thank you.

nice way of teaching,actually i'm doing my Msc but after working for 2 years in other field,it's like a good refresh of what i have learned before,...and i feel like i didn't learn anything compared to these newly graduates that are doing so well,i hope i could do as good as them after watching all the videos,thank you!!

This is an excellent channel, and thank you very much for creating this video!

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me when rock

When the Doc is discussing Mineral collecting kits - who has made their own using a Whitman's Sampler box? I must have made a dozen of these when I was a kid I had so much fun collecting rocks and minerals. Unfortunately, no internet back then - but trips to the public library to learn about the sciences. 50+ years later - I still have a couple of those kits

excellent and well organized presentation for us having less knowledge of geology

Thank you so much for producing this a+ quality and very educational set of educational videos, I have slowly been teaching myself geology over the years and this series has been an enormous benefit to me as I continue my studies. Is it possible for the public to buy the textbook you refer to? Thank you so much and keep up the good work

Your videos are awesome sir ....really interesting.....thanks a lot.....

I need to understand everything ,especially when English is not my mother language . Beautiful intelligence . We are made from beauty intelligence. You are beauty mind.

I have found a precious stone. The video helped me alot. Thanks to your educational and informative video.

You are a gifted teacher

PART 2: I have prospected beautiful minerals at Sterling Hill Mine, the dirt recycling center and collecting dimensional stones, such as mall rock mulch which has beautiful granites with calcium or quartz veins in them, muscovite mica books and schists, granites with large schist, orthoclase, shale, slate, marble, chert, and even vesicular basalt from a road cut. I love your course. Frank Reiser M.S.

Hello these are wonderful lectures. I really love the geologic process and these lectures have made it very understandable to my poor older brain. Is it possable to get the homework for further work? I have never asked for homework in my very long life lol!

Thank you so much sir! You explained it very well. It helped me in my geol 100 lessons (including your other videos).

This is very helpful especially since my teachers doesnt know how to teach and we have class at home

exactly what I needed to understand thankyou

I am a new subscriber, but want to thank you for these fantastic lessons in geology. I have learned so much already! I can't wait to try out my new knowledge. :D

This video's a gold mine.

Awesome, want to watch them all! Great job thx

Lol dude your videos are a godsend in this remote learning time! Thanks SO much!

38:42 it's means 33.33% for each I assume. If i get how to use that chart correctly, each axis uses the previous one anticlockwise to get the percentage.

Legit top-tier content. At 2x the vid is clear, concise, w great visuals. Nice quote btw:)

This stuff can Heal you.

Thanks a lot for the great videos. Slight mistake at 19min 40 sec. The earth is not a giant ball made of what you list, because yyou are listing the crust components, the mantel and the nucleus are different..

I loved this video learned a lot from it, thank you !!!

Want to bring to your attention that at 14:50 you meant to say that quartz is 2.7 times heavier than water. Great lecture. Thanks for sharing.

☕Sip. Thanks for the digestible presentation.

I think this is absolutely fantastic

Thank you for your great informative video to uploaded, it's very helpful.

Dude, this is soo good. Biology PhD here wanting to brush up on geology. You really explain this very well!

I am a middle aged man and never saw euhedral calcite as rock mulch on someone's property. My neighbor had it. She gave me permission, so I collected a lot of it.

For the composition of the earth you were talking about the crust and not the whole earth, but you didn't precise it And if I'm not mistaken put's the Iron at ~30%, the Oxygen at ~30% and the Silicon at ~15%

Old saying Iron sharpens Iron, presenting all this material to us, gives a chance that we get a little sharper too ! thank-you more good understandably talks of geology luv it luv some rare earth!

Hi, Do Geologists sometimes need the services of a Geochemist to properly identify the Rock or Mineral Sample that has been found? FOR INSTANCE:: Let's say that there are two Minerals with each looking very similar in their physical appearance and each having the same 3 Chemical Elements that make up each Mineral but in different proportions by Percentages (%}. One Mineral Sample may have the Percentage Ratios of 60-20-20 and the other may have the Percentages of 40-30-30, again with the same Chemical Elements in different proportions. I would "assume," if I may,, with that much variation in the Percentages of the Elements, there would "most likely" be enough Physical Appearance variations to properly identify the two Mineral Samples by sight by the Geologist. If they could NOT be readily identified by the Geologist, would that require the Samples to be Examined & Analyzed by by a Geochemist? ~TIA, Bruce~

Good to know u can eat anything up to 4 Mohs. Btw with pumice, vermiculite and perlite seems that its just not measured right cause it traps so much air that gets counted as its volume. And also contributes to the floating.

What a fascinating subject! Thanks for posting this wonderful class on Geology. Gold, I was told it cannot be formed here on earth. I was told it can only come from a star going supernova and a meteor carrying it from that supernova coming here to earth. But in your video, it looks like it grows on quartz? I will believe a geologist over an astronomer. Hope you can answer.

Great Lecture. Can you share the presentations?

this is a pretty good channel...

So many names. Is there a good family tree type of diagram to show the classifications of minerals?

Most Geologists are really down to earth.

Just discovered your series. Love the lessons. On this Geology (4) lesson you list the breakdown of earth composition and Iron is listed as 5% However, every time I see a 3D cutout view of the Earth the solid Iron core is shown as this huge ball and then it is wrapped with a liquid Iron core (even bigger) altogether hardly 5% and more like 20% If were to draw those layers in the correct proportion, what would the view look like?

You should give a short explanation as per the Fe3O4 part that got edited out. Ive studied this in terms of Meteorites. Neat stuff.

I'd be quite interested in doing some chemistry and modify minerals to get some interesting properties and colors, I wonder whether people do this, or are simple books to get started Just a minor detail but in 49:55 (OH)2 is not water, but hydroxide, i.e what makes compounds basic.

4:58 the orange/brown - that's citrine...awesome presentation....still don't know what book is part of the lectures...

Awesome lesson and teaching!

Would you mind sharing presentations? It would be excellent for the audience. Kind regards...

Thank you very much

Wait-What? Covalent bonds are stronger than ionic bonds?? My last chemistry class was around 1975-I’m sure new discoveries have been made and there is more to bonding than simple covalent vs ionic . . . But since when are covalent bonds stronger than ionic bonds? That would turn most properties of water upside down . . . ????? Is this just re: silicates? Please clarify.

Thankya. I feel smarter already, always wanted to know.

Really cool cool stuff, fascinating!

Excellent presentation!

I am guessing the relative abundance of elements in the earth is with respect to mass rather than relative number of moles. Mass vs. moles would give different ratios of elements. The relative abundance of hydrogen, sodium and carbon, in number of atoms, is going to be much higher than their contribution to total mass because they are light elements.

Thank you

amazing!! thank you so much

Very useful

What dictates the formation patterns on metaloids?

in georgia there is a mica member that looks like gold.

This was a bit of a leap for me from the previous lectures. Struggling a bit with this. Gone back to you tube for lots of clips and talks on chemistry etc. Would like another lecture for total chemistry beginner. Having said that will carry on with other lectures.

(OH)2, ie 2 oxygens and 2 hydrogens, is not water. It's dihydroxide (as in the hydroxide group of sodium hydroxide (NaOH)). Thanks for the video.

Thank you sir

18:00

you described quartz as having multiple colors, but isn't the orange/red color quartz a citrine?

Cool video

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Excellent video... can u please make a video on Depositional Environment in view of hydrocarbon formation and deposition.

Am I mistaken or when he goes over the colors of minerals and points out that there are orange minerals, isn’t that an orange citrine Quartz Crystal piece on the upper right that he labels as a stained piece of a type of rose quartz?

Lesson #4 done and done! This lesson was also particularly tough for me to get through because of the chemistry bit.

you are my geology hero!

Hello, I really enjoy your channel. I am interested in geology and wonder do you have the PowerPoint presentation available or could you recommend reading material if I was to undertake an undergraduate degree.

What are streak plate’s made of? Would water purification (for human consumption) be aided by silicate minerals? If so, light or dark silicates?

Please elaborate on Miller and Weiss parametric and how to get the faces and structure of crystals. Thanks

OK I know this is way off subject, but I just found your channel and I have a question, if you would indulge me a little it would be appreciated. Zircon magnetics, have you heard of this and the Baja/ BC theory, if so what are you thoughts on it, has it been proven or still a theory? And I do enjoy the videos I've seen so far, the format, and content, thank you

Thanks

Phew, that one got a bit dense. The slide show content really helped digest it though.

Do we know if Enstite is forming in outter space (asteroids and such) or does it require a full planet with an active geology like Earth?

I want request you To give me the ppt for you lessons

Interesting AF!

Great, just great =D

Muscovite is not named after city of Moscow, nor after citizens of Moscow, but after Muscovy, which was an alternative name of (entire) Russia in the middle ages.

I studeid geology from somalia

When you ask the audience to watch a different video before watching the video they are in. It's usually helpful if you post a link for the previous video in the description of the current video. Maybe you could do that to help out future learners

whatever happened to the geologist who licked a whole bunch of granite? he felsic! I'll see myself out xD