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1.00 Credits
Laboratory-3 hours. Prerequisite: courses 60-60L. Introduction to petrographic laboratory techniques for petrographers. Topics covered may include thin and polished section preparation, rock crushing/ grinding, mineral separation, staining, and photomicroscopy. (P/NP grading only.)
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3.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours. Prerequisite: course 1. Origin, occurrence, and distribution of non-renewable resources, including metallic, nonmetallic, and energy-producing materials. Problems of discovery, production, and management. Estimations and limitations of reserves, and their sociological, political, and economic effects. Offered in alternate years.- (II.) Zierenber
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3.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours. Prerequisite: upper division standing. Risk, prediction, prevention and response for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, floods, storms, fires, impacts, global warming.-I. Turcotte
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3.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours. Prerequisite: one course in Geology, preferably course 50 or 1, or consent of instructor. Geologic aspects of land use and development planning. Geologic problems concerning volcanic and earthquake hazards, land stability, floods, erosion, coastal hazards, non-renewable resource extraction, waste disposal, water resources. GE credit: SciEng, Wrt.-II. (II.) Rustad
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5.00 Credits
Lecture-1 hour; discussion/laboratory-2 hours;fieldwork; term paper or discussion. Prerequisite: upper division or graduate standing in any physical science, biological science, or engineering, and consent of instructor. Integrative multidisciplinary field analysis of streams. Class project examines hydrology, geomorphology, water quality and aquatic and riparian ecology of degraded and pristine stream systems. Includes cooperative two-week
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4.00 Credits
Lecture-2 hours; fieldwork-6 hours. Prerequisite:upper division standing, course 60 and 109 or the equivalents, or consent of instructor. Principles of physical and chemical volcanology. Taught in a volcanically active setting (e.g., Hawaii) with a strong field component. GE credit: SciEng.-IV. (IV.) Schiffman
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5.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours; laboratory-3 hours; fieldwork-hours. Prerequisite: courses 50, 50L; Mathematics 21B or 16B recommended. Advanced analysis of fluvial processes, including geomorphic evolution of rivers, floodplains and watersheds at various spatial and temporal scales, and in response to changing land use. Laboratory exercises examine methods of geomorphic analysis of rivers. Includes three weekend field trips.-(I.) Mount
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3.00 Credits
Lecture-3 hours. Evolutionary history of vertebrates; fossil record and phylogeny; timing of major evolutionary events; appearance of major vertebrate groups; physical constraints in vertebrate evolution; paleobiogeography of vertebrates; effect of continental movement on vertebrate evolution; dinosaurs and other strange vertebrates. Offered in alternate years.-II. Motani
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1.00 Credits
Laboratory-3 hours. Prerequisite: course 141 (may be taken concurrently). Augments lecture course 141 through handling of specimens enabling in-person examination of three dimensional features observed in vertebrate skeletons, both fossil and living. Offered in alternate years.-II. Motani
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3.00 Credits
Laboratory-3 hours; lecture-2 hours. Prerequisite:courses 50, 50L, and 109. Analysis of sedimentary basins from initiation to maturity, including controls on sedimentary fill, subsidence analysis, sequence stratigraphy, core logs, and applications to petroleum exploration and hydrology. One two-day field trip. Offered in alternate years.-(I.) Sumner
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