Earth Sciences


  • MIT's OpenCourseWare on Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences.
  • Introduction to Geology
    MIT's OpenCourseWare lecture materials - presents a basic study in geology. It introduces major minerals and rock types, rock-forming processes, and time scales; temperatures, pressures, compositions, structure of the Earth, and measurement techniques; geologic structures and relationships observable in the field; sediment movement and landform development by moving water, wind, and ice; crustal processes and planetary evolution in terms of global plate tectonics with an emphasis on ductile and brittle processes.
  • Evolution of Physical Oceonography. This is a free online text providing the state-of-the-art of the subject as of 1980. Many of the chapters in this textbook are still up-to-date descriptions of active scientific fields, and all of them are important historical records.