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3.00 Credits
Lec 3. Prereq: GEOL 340 or permission. Theory of plate tectonics; tectonic controls on rock assemblages; interpretation of regional structure and tectonic history; origin and tectonic evolution of terrestrial planets.
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3.00 Credits
(4 cr) Lec 3, lab 3. Prereq: MATH 107; PHYS 211; GEOL 101 or 106; or equivalent or permission. Introduction to the principles of seismic, ground-penetrating radar, and bore-hole geophysical methods and their application to groundwater, engineering, environmental, and archaeological investigations.
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3.00 Credits
(4 cr) Lec 3, lab 3. Prereq: MATH 107; PHYS 211; GEOL 101 or 106; or equivalent or permission. Introduction to principles of magnetic, electromagnetic, resistivity, and gravity methods and their application to ground water, engineering, environmental, and archaeological investigations.
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3.00 Credits
Lec, lab. Prereq: 12 hrs geosciences. GEOL 446/846 lab focuses on techniques for pollen recovery from modern and ancient materials. Pollen and spore morphology, taxonomy, and pollination ecology as a basic tool for geologists, biologists, and archaeologists interested in environmental reconstruction. Techniques of environmental reconstruction through pollen analysis. Aspects of medical and forensic palynology summarized.
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3.00 Credits
Lec 2, lab 3. Prereq: GEOL 310 or permission. Two or three half-day field trips to local sites of interest and a five-day field trip to Colorado and Wyoming are required. Fluvial, glacial, eolian, and coastal processes and landforms. Roles of tectonics, climate, and climate change in landscape evolution. Lab stresses description and interpretation of landforms from remotely-sensed, cartographic, and field data.
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3.00 Credits
(4 cr) Lec 3, rct 1. Prereq: BIOS 207 or 220; CHEM 110; and MATH 107. For course description, see BIOS 457/857.
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6.00 Credits
Prereq: 12 hrs geology. Six weeks advanced study on selected field problems. Conducted in a geologically classic area where all major rock types are studied in a variety of geologic situations.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr I) Lec 3. Prereq: AGRO/SOIL 153, PHYS 141 or equivalent, one semester of calculus. Recommended: Parallel AGRO/NRES/ SOIL 458. For course description, see NRES 461/861.
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3.00 Credits
(3 cr) Lec 2, lab 3. Prereq: GEOL 450/850 and NRES 477/877; or permission. Two field trips required. Soils and paleosols as evidence in reconstruction landscape evolution and paleoenvironments. Role of paleosols in stratigraphy.
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3.00 Credits
Lec 3. Prereq: GEOL 488/888 or permission. Basic techniques, including field procedures, instruments, and software for data interpretation and characterization of groundwater flow and contaminant transport. Combined lectures, laboratory, assigned problems, full day field trips, and seminars.
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