WJEC • Geology

Fantastic summary PowerPoint covering everything you need to know for topic F1: Elements, Minerals and Rocks from Eduqas A Level Geology. Students studying the OCR Geology specification will also find this useful. The slide deck is written in an easy, digestible format and fully illustrated. It covers: - Differences between elements, minerals and rocks - Crystal formation - Goldschmidt Classification - Abundance of elements in the Earth's crust - Mohs hardness scale - Diagnostic prope...

The Earth is composed of rocks which have distinctive mineralogies and textures.

In-depth notes explaining how geological structures affect engineering practice, types of foundations, tunnels, shrinking and swelling of clay, radon gas, brownfield sites and remediation

In-depth notes explaining groundwater supply, Darcy's Law, problems with over extraction of groundwater, water quality and groundwater pollution, and waste disposal

In-depth notes explaining porosity and permeability (and the factors affecting them), types of mass movement, mechanisms and triggers for mass movement, monitoring techniques and methods of controlling mass movement

Extensive notes explaining the types of seismic wave, elastic rebound theory, Mercalli and Moment Magnitude Scales, effects of an earthquake, factors affecting the risk of damage to property and loss of life, earthquake precursors, geohazards, seismic risk and return period, and earthquake and tsunami management strategies

In-depth notes explaining stress-strain graphs, factors affecting stress and strain, unconformities, folding, and faults (dip-slip and strike-slip)

Extensive notes explaining the environments, formation, extraction, prospecting techniques, hazards and environmental considerations of coal, hydrocarbons, metallic ores, igneous associations, sedimentary associations and non-metallic minerals

In-depth notes describing factors controlling metamorphic processes, metamorphic environments (dynamic, burial, contact and regional), chemical equilibrium changes during metamorphism, metamorphic structures and textures and pressure-temperature-time graphs

Notes describing factors affecting rock behaviour, principal stress orientations of different types of faults, fault indicators, folding mechanisms, cleavage-bedding relationships, fault reactivation, and interpreting block diagrams and maps