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3.00 Credits
This course covers global change and environmental concerns and weaves together an understanding of earth's lithosphere, atmosphere, and oceans and how ecosystems are linked to the physical environment. Students are encouraged but not required to enroll concurrently in 102L.
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1.00 Credits
Introductory environmental earth science laboratory. Includes minerals, rocks, and rock cycle, topographic maps, local geology and groundwater, weather and climate. Pre- or co requisite. 101
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3.00 Credits
A fascinating tour of our active planet. Explore earth materials (rocks and minerals), the continents' motions and related origins of earthquakes, volcanoes, mountain building, oceans, landscapes, natural energy and economic resources, global working and other topics. Concurrent: 105L.
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1.00 Credits
Minerals, rocks, and topographic and geologic maps: field trips. Pre or co-requisite 101 or 103.
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3.00 Credits
Eight week courses on selected topics relating directly to the human experience, e.g. volcanoes, extinctions, weather, earthquakes, New Mexico's water, soils, nuclear hazards, geomagnetism, field geology, and the geology of everyday life.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of the fossil record, evolution, paleobiology, and extinction of dinosaurs, and the animals with whom dinosaurs shared the earth.
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4.00 Credits
Origin and history of the earth including age of the planet and dating of rocks, changing configurations of oceans and continents as a result of plate tectonics, records of climate change, history of formation and erosion of mountain chains, origin and evolution of life and causes of extinction. Required field trip and lab exercises permit understanding of how Earth history is interpreted from the geologic rock record. Prerequisite: 101 and pre- or co requisite: 105L.
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3.00 Credits
The ocean as a physical and chemical feature and dynamic process.
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3.00 Credits
Description of geologic features including structures, landforms, and mineral resources of New Mexico. For earth science teachers at high schools and junior high schools. Prerequisite : 101
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3.00 Credits
(Also offered as Geog 251.) Description of weather phenomena, principles of atmospheric motion, weather map analysis, and weather prediction.
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