Geology study guides
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- Eduqas GCSE Geology Geological structures and deformation: folds, faults, dip and reading cross-sections
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Geology guide to Geological structures and deformation. Covers folds and faults as evidence of stress, joints and unconformities, dip and strike, and reconstructing the order of events from a cross-section, with the map and section skills Eduqas examines in Component 2.
π 18 min readC700-Rocks-and-Minerals-Deformation - Eduqas GCSE Geology Human interaction with the Earth: hazards, resources and engineering geology
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Geology guide to Human interaction with the Earth. Covers earthquake, volcanic and mass-movement hazards and their mitigation, mineral and energy resources and groundwater, and engineering geology, plus the exam patterns Eduqas repeats across the two components.
π 19 min readC700-Human-Interaction - Eduqas GCSE Geology Investigative and fieldwork geology: observation, maps, cross-sections, data and the field investigation
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Geology guide to Investigative and fieldwork geology. Covers field observation and specimen identification, reading simplified geological maps and grid references, constructing cross-sections and logs, quantitative skills (scale, rates and the epicentre calculation), and the directed field investigation, plus how Component 2 examines these skills.
π 18 min readC700-Investigative - Eduqas GCSE Geology Minerals and rocks: identifying minerals and the three rock families
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Geology guide to Minerals and rocks. Covers identifying minerals by physical properties, igneous rocks and cooling rate, sedimentary rocks and their fossils and depositional environments, metamorphic rocks and the contact versus regional contrast, and the exam patterns Eduqas repeats across Components 1 and 2.
π 18 min readC700-Rocks-and-Minerals - Eduqas GCSE Geology Planetary geology: comparing Earth with its neighbours, meteorites, and reading the Moon and Mars
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Geology guide to Planetary geology. Covers comparing the Earth with its rocky neighbours and the Moon, meteorites as evidence for the Earth's interior, uniformitarianism applied to space imagery, reading the surfaces of the Moon and Mars, and the crater-density dating method, plus the exam patterns Eduqas repeats.
π 17 min readC700-Planetary-Geology - Eduqas GCSE Geology The Earth and its history: the rock cycle, plate tectonics, geological time, climate and life
A deep-dive Eduqas GCSE Geology guide to The Earth and its history. Covers the rock cycle that links the three rock families, plate tectonics and its evidence, the principles of geological dating, past climate and sea-level change, and the development of life, plus the exam patterns Eduqas repeats across the two components.
π 18 min readC700-Earth-and-its-History