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4.00 Credits
Effects of feedbacks between cycles, including the plate tectonic, rock, hydrologic, and carbon cycles, on the lithosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and atmosphere at diverse intervals in the Earth’s history. Present and future implications. Evidence recorded in rocks and fossils and its interpretation. Three hours of lecture and one laboratory per week. Serves as repeat credit for 102. Prerequisite: 101 and 111.
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3.00 Credits
Assessment and management of deadly risks: comparison of markets, regulatory agencies, and courts for managing risks; cultural and scientific construction of risk; psychology of risk perception; case studies such as Hurricane Katrina, mad cow disease, and air pollution.
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4.00 Credits
Ecology, classification, and evolution of important groups of fossils, emphasizing invertebrates. Change in marine ecosystems through geologic time. Causes and effects of rapid evolution events and mass extinctions. Three hours of lecture and one laboratory period per week. Prerequisite: 101 or BSCI 100 or BSCI 110b.
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4.00 Credits
Solid materials that make up the earth; rock, soil, and sediment- with emphasis on the minerals that are their major constituents. Hand specimen, optical, and X-ray methods of description and identification. Physical and chemical processes that form and modify earth materials and the use of these materials in interpreting earth processes of the past and present. Field trips. Three lectures and one laboratory per week. Prerequisite: 101.
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4.00 Credits
Nature, distribution, and theories of origin of igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks. Mineralogy as a function of rock-forming conditions. Laboratory emphasis on description and interpretation of rocks, using hand sample and microscope techniques. Field trips. Three lectures and one laboratory period per week. Prerequisite: 225. No credit for graduate students in EES.
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4.00 Credits
The origin and composition of sedimentary particles, their transportation to the site of deposition, actual deposition, and the processes involved in lithifying sediments into solid rock. Emphasis on interpretation of ancient source areas and depositional environments. Terrigenous, carbonate, and other rock types will be studied. Field trips. Three lectures and one laboratory period. Prerequisite: 225 or 226. No credit for graduate students in EES.
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4.00 Credits
Principles of rock deformation; mechanics, fractures, folds, foliation, primary structures. Field trips. Three lectures and one laboratory period per week. Pre- or corequisite: 226. No credit for graduate students in EES.
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3.00 Credits
Principles of conservation and constitutive transport laws; classic and emerging styles of modeling natural systems. Prerequisite: physics and calculus; senior or graduate standing in Earth and Environmental Sciences or related fields.
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3.00 Credits
Application of chemistry to study the distribution and cycling of elements in the crust of the earth. Includes chemical bonding and crystallization, phase rules and phase diagrams, chemical equilibria, theories on the origin of elements, earth, ocean, atmosphere, and crust. Prerequisite: 225 and Chemistry 102a-102b, or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of the Earth’s landforms, their morphology, history, and the processes that form them. The building of relief and its subsequent transformation by geologic processes on hillslopes, rivers, coasts, wetlands, and glaciers. The natural history and human impacts on land forms. Field trips. Prerequisite: 101 and junior standing in natural science, anthropology, or engineering.
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