GLY 453 - Quaternary Dating and Paleoclimate

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University at Buffalo

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Credits: 3 Prerequisites: GLY 31, GLY 313 Corequisites: None Type: LEC Explores the Earth s large swings in climate over the past million years, how they are documented, the various dating techniques used to place them into a chronological framework, and the implications for how the Earth s climate system operates. Focuses on marine sediment, ice core, and terrestrial archives of glacial and interglacial cycles, abrupt climate change, past warm periods analogous to our future world, and techniques used to date these records.

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3.00

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Lecture

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www.buffalo.edu

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(716) 645-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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