Welcome to GEOG 111 Earth Systems and the associated textbook. This resource is meant as a quick overview of materials you should be prepared to engage with each week. It’s purpose is not to be an exhaustive textbook that gives detailed explanations of each topic, but rather to rapidly introduce you to the basics of the material we will look at each week. If you would like to access a more traditional textbook that has more detailed explanations of the topics here, I recommend the following:

Available in print through the SFU library:

Christopherson, R. W., Byrne, M.-L., & Giles, P. T. (2016). Geosystems : an introduction to physical geography / Robert Christopherson, Mary-Louise Byrne, Philip Giles. (Fourth Canadian edition.). Pearson.

Available online in ebook format:

Physical Geography – Lumen Learning – Online textbook

Thomas, D. S. (2016). The Dictionary of Physical Geography. Chicester: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated.

Acknowledgements:

This project was facilitated by an SFU Open Educational Research Grant to the author, and was supported through work by Matthew Watkins and Joyce Chen.