1. WELCOME TO GEOLOGY and GEOLOGYPORTAL!
The required textbook for this course is
Essential Earth
First Edition
by Thomas H. Jordan and John Grotzinger
(©2009, W.H. Freeman & Company)

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3. GEOLOGYPORTAL

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