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Free Online Geology Courses From Top Universities

There are 29 online Geology courses offered free by a top university - MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology).

1. Advanced Igneous Petrology - MIT

A look at recent discoveries in and the history of the investigation into igneous rocks. Topics include minerals found in igneous rock - their structure and chemistry - and igneous processes.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelGraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
10 10 10

2. Geobiology - MIT

Examines a particular geological agent - life - by investigating the relationships between happenings on the Earth and biology from the time life first occurred on the Earth to the present.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?Yes
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
10 9 9.5

3. Trace Element Geochemistry - MIT

By using a geochemistry technique (determining the trace elements in igneous rocks), student learn about the rocks' evolution and origins.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelGraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
10 9 9.5

4. Structure of Earth Materials - MIT

Introduction into the minerals that form in rocks. Course examines crystal chemistry, crystalline structure, certain properties (i.e. refractive index) and occurrences of metallic, oxide and silicate minerals.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
10 9 9.5

5. Medical Geology/Geochemistry: An Exposure - MIT

Examination of basic concepts. Multidisciplinary, combining geology, environmental geochemistry and geomedicine.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
9 9 9

6. Structural Geology - MIT

Structural geology techniques - rock deformation mechanics, tectonics, features (folds and faults) and strain analysis.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
9 9 9

7. Electron Microphobe Analysis by Wavelength Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry - MIT

Looks at solid samples. Subjects covered include X-ray spectrometry theory, instrumentation, imaging techniques and quantitative analysis.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
9 9 9

8. Surface Processes and Landscape Evolution - MIT

Course outlines geomorphic processes or processes that shaped the surface of the Earth. These include tectonics, climate, glaciers and erosion.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

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Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
9 9 9

9. Introduction to Seismology - MIT

Gain an understanding of the mechanism of elastic waves travel through the Earth's interior, seismic tomography (to discover the properties of the Earth or to determine the speed of waves travelling through the Earth) and theory of seismic ray.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelGraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

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Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
8 9 8.5

10. Geodynamics - MIT

Deformation mechanics of the Earth's mantle and crust. Distinguishes between different deformation descriptions, such as viscoelastic and brittle.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelGraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
8 9 8.5

11. Principles of the Global Positioning System - MIT

Students learn basic Global Positioning System (GPS) principles and their application to geology.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelGraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

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Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
9 8 8.5

12. Phase Transitions in the Earth's Interior - MIT

Phrase transitions at high temperatures and pressures within the Earth, concentrating specifically on material in the core and mantle.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelGraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
8 9 8.5

13. Trace Element Analysis of Geological, Biological and Environmental Materials by Neutron Analysis: An Exposure - MIT

How to use neutron activation as an analysis technique to determine the concentration of elements present in a sample in trace (<0.1% of the mass of the sample) amounts.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
9 8 8.5

14. Petrology - MIT

An analysis of processes that lead to the formation of rocks by using physics and chemistry.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
9 8 8.5

15. Field Geology I - MIT

Students learn the digital (GIS (geographic information system) and handheld computers) and traditional (field notebook, hammer magnet and lens) techniques most commonly used in the field to perform geological mapping.

Course FeatureResult for Home User
Degree LevelUndergraduate
Lectures, Notes or Reading Lists?Yes
Labs and Assignments?Yes
Tests or Quizzes with Solutions?No
Video Lectures?No
Podcast of Course?No
Audio for Course?No
Downloadable Materials?Yes

DiplomaGuide.com Course Grade (1 worst - 10 best)

Quality of Content Usability for Home User Overall Grade
8 9 8.5

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