Faculty of Science
Department of Earth, Energy and Environment
Coastal Dynamics
This textbook on Coastal Dynamics focuses on the interrelation between physical wave, flow and sediment transport phenomena and the resulting morphodynamics of a wide variety of coastal systems.
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Earth Science (Lumen Learning)
This text includes introductions to concepts from level I earth science courses, from geology to water systems. It was developed through Lumen Learning and a professor of Geology and Earth Sciences from Santa Ana College.
Includes: Exercises, summaries
Licence: CC BY 4.0, unless otherwise noted.
Environmental Geology [New]
This environmental geology course is about how geological processes affect the environment as well as humans and their infrastructure, and also about how humans affect geological processes. The course covers the typical environmental geology topics (earthquakes, volcanoes, slope failures, etc.) but has a strong emphasis on Earth systems and especially on climate change. The motivation behind making this course open and widely available is the urgency of environmental issues like climate change, which is more important at this time than ever before. [Description from resource].
Includes: Instructor guide, student guide, assignments, marking rubrics, visual aids.
Licence: CC BY
Geological Structures: A Practical Introduction
This manual is about structures that occur within the Earth’s crust. Structures are the features that allow geologists to figure out how parts of the Earth have changed position, orientation, size and shape over time.
Includes: Labs
Licence: CC BY-NC
GeoScience Images
Funded by the Tamaratt Teaching Professorship, this collection of geoscience-related images is an open-access source for teaching, learning, and research. It relies on contributions from users. Use these instructional images for use in course materials; exemplars with notes for students learning in the geosciences; and data for research and scholarship purposes (Description from UCalgary Digital Collections).
Licence: See individual image for licensing details.
Geosciences LibreTexts Library
A collection of open textbooks, assignments, and other educational resources on the subject of geosciences.
Includes: Lab experiments, case studies, interactive applications and worksheets
Licence: See individual resources for licensing details
Introduction to Earth Science [New]
Introduction to Earth Science is a 530+ page open textbook designed to provide a comprehensive introduction to Earth Science that can be freely accessed online, read offline, printed, or purchased as a print-on-demand book. It is intended for a typical 1000-level university introductory course in the Geosciences, although its contents could be applied to many other related courses. This text includes various important features designed to enhance the student learning experience in introductory Earth Science courses. These include a multitude of high-quality