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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MATH115 or MATH140; GEOL100 or GEOL120, and one of the following: {CHEM131 and CHEM132}, {CHEM135 and CHEM136}, or CHEM103. The goal of the course is to highlight the fact that global climate change is part of the Earth's past as well as of its present and future. Changes in climate that have occurred in the geologic past can be viewed as the Earth's natural climate variability. These changes are different from, though could be linked with, historical and present anthropogenically-induced climate change. We will discuss the modern climate system, the factors capable of forcing climate change on various time scales, the geologic proxies of past climate change and what these proxies tell us. Finally, we will compare and contrast past climate change with what is understood (and not understood) about modern climate change.
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4.00 Credits
Two lectures and one laboratory per week. Prerequisites: GEOL100 or GEOL120, GEOL110, and GEOL322, and one of the following: {CHEM131 and CHEM132}, {CHEM135 and CHEM136}, or CHEM103. Corequisite: GEOL423 or permission of department. Study of igneous and metamorphic rocks: petrogenesis, distributions, chemical and mineralogical relations, macroscopic and microscopic descriptions, geologic significance.
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4.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: MATH115; GEOL100; GEOL322; and one of the following: CHEM103, {CHEM131 and CHEM132}, or {CHEM135 and CHEM136}. Basic chemical principles, thermodynamics, and kinetics of low-temperature inorganic and organic geochemical reactions in a wide range of surface environments. These geochemical tools will be used to provide a context for understanding elemental cycling and climate change. Laboratories will include problem sets as well as wet chemical and mass spectrometric techniques used in low temperature geochemistry.
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4.00 Credits
Three hours of lecture and three hours of laboratory per week. Prerequisite: MATH115; GEOL100; GEOL322; and one of the following: CHEM103, {CHEM131 and CHEM132}, or {CHEM135 and CHEM136}. Review of chemical principles and their use in understanding processes of Earth, and solar system formation and differentiation. Topics include nucleosynthesis and cosmochemical abundances of elements, bonding and element partitioning, equilibrium thermodynamics and phase stabilities, radiogenic isotopes and geochronology, kinetics, and diffusion.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: MATH140, MATH141, and PHYS141. Introduction to solid earth geophysics, heat transfer, fluid flow, gravity, geomagnetism, rock and mineral physics, seismology, exploration geophysics. Basic knowledge of integral and differential calculus is required.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: MATH140, GEOL100 or GEOL120, GEOL110 and one of the following: {CHEM131 and CHEM132}, {CHEM135 and CHEM136}, or CHEM103; or permission of department. Junior standing. An introduction to the basic geologic parameters associated with the hydrologic cycle. Problems in the accumulation, distribution, and movement of groundwater will be analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: permission of department. Junior standing. Physical processes by which water moves in watershed and wetland systems. Topics include: precipitation, infiltration, flow in the unsaturated zone, streamflow generation processes, and groundwater flow.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEOL100 or GEOL120, MATH140, MATH141; or permission of department. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: GEOL455 or GEOL489E. Formerly GEOL489E. Plate tectonics, earthquakes and faulting, isostasy and gravity, heat and mantle dynamics, ocean ridges and transform faults, hydrothermal vents, trenches and oceanic islands, subduction zones, accretionary and erosion wedges, sedimentary basins and continental rifts. Exploration of the oceans using geophysical methods.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: GEOL100 or GEOL120, GEOL110, MATH140, MATH141; or permission of department. Recommended: PHYS141, PHYS161, or PHYS171. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: GEOL457 or GEOL489A. Formerly GEOL489A. General overview of the basics of seismology, starting with wave propagation, seismic reflection and refraction. Applications to the determination of the seismic velocity and anisotropy structure of the Earth. Earthquake generation, postseismic deformation and creep events, relation to faulting and plate tectonics.
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3.00 Credits
One lecture and two laboratories per week. Prerequisite: One of the following: GEOL100/110; GEOL120/110; or GEOL103. An introduction to geologic remote sensing including applications of aerial photographic interpretation to problems in regional geology, engineering geology, structural geology, and stratigraphy. Films, filters, and criteria used in selecting imagery are also discussed. Laboratory exercises include measurements of geologic parameters and compilation and transference of data to base maps.
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