Week 1: Origin of the Earth

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In this topic, we will set the scene by exploring how the solar system and the Earth formed.

This section will contain lecture slides and the assigned reading for the week.

Lecture

Lecture slides: L1 Origin of the Earth

Reading

I suggest reading Chapter 1 of Lutgens and Tarbuck 2015 Essentials of Geology . This introduction chapter contains some of the same content as the lecture, but also gives a broad introduction to geology and the Earth.

Additional

Documentary about the formation of the universe on YouTube - a few years old, but covers a lot of the same content as the lecture - The Universe with Stephen Hawking: The Story of Everything Formation of the Solar System