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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, normally 3 hours; two 1- day field trips. Prerequisite(s): ENSC 100/SWSC 100 or ENSC 100H/SWSC 100H; GEO 001 or GEO 002; or consent of instructor. The study of soils as they occur in the field and their relations to current and past environmental conditions. Use of field and laboratory data to understand soil genesis, causes of soil variability, fundamentals of soil classification, and land use potentials. Laboratory emphasizes the description and interpretation of soils and landscapes in the field. Cross-listed with ENSC 138 and SWSC 138.
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Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): GEO 001 with a grade of "C-" or better; MATH 009C or MATH 09HC; PHYS 040C. Application of classical physics to the study of the Earth. Origin of the Earth, its gravitational, geomagnetic, and geothermal characteristics, seismicity and the dynamics of the Earth's crust, plate tectonics, and continental drift.
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Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): MATH 010A, MATH 010B, MATH 046, PHYS 040A, PHYS 040B, PHYS 040C; or consent of instructor. Introduction to the theories and observations of earthquake seismology. Students use physical principles and mathematical techniques to study the earthquake process, wave propagation, and ground motion. The laboratory emphasizes computer-assisted analysis of various types of seismic data, as well as simple modeling techniques.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): GEO 001 with a grade of "C-" or better; MATH 009A or MATH 09HA; MATH 009B or MATH 09HB; PHYS 002A or PHYS 040A; PHYS 002B or PHYS 040B; PHYS 002C or PHYS 040C; or consent of instructor. Covers techniques of geophysical investigation of the shallow subsurface as they apply to solving groundwater, environmental, archaeological, and engineering problems. Emphasizes methods, survey design, and interpretation with focus on case studies. Laboratory consists of both field training and computer exercises using geographic information systems for analysis of spatial data.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; discussion, 1 hour; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): GEO 001, GEO 115; or consent of instructor. A computer-based course that introduces active tectonics and the earthquake cycle and how they are studied using remote sensing data. Explores examples of actively deforming areas from around the world using computer visualization software and freely available data sources (satellite imagery, digital topography, GPS and earthquake data).
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours; one 1-day field trip. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 010/GEO 003 with a grade of "C- " or better or BIOL 005C. Emphasis is on understanding fossils as living organisms. Topics include fundamentals of evolution and the fossil record, introductory morphometrics and biosystemic theory, functional morphology, and metazoan organization and classification.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 2 hours; laboratory, 3 hours; three 1-day field trips. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 005C with a grade of "C-" or better or BIOL 010/GEO 003 with a grade of "C-" or better. Topics include evolution and the fossil record, paleoecology, classification theory; the nature of adaptive radiations, and extinctions. Cross-listed with BIOL 152.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): BIOL 010/GEO 003 with a grade of "C-" or better or BIOL 005C. Focuses on the history of biodiversity and the responses of organisms to episodes of profound environmental change. Outlines the major features of evolutionary history chronicled by fossils, the dynamics of evolutionary radiations and extinctions, and the implications of paleontological data for current issues in biodiversity.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; laboratory, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing. Introduces the fundamental theory and application of geographical information science. Topics include geographic information systems, data structures, databases, and spatial data models. Explores various spatial data, including their coordinate systems, data acquisition, and associated errors. Introduces data analysis methods within geographical information systems.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; discussion, 1 hour. Prerequisite(s): PHYS 002C or PHYS 040C or consent of instructor. Surveys historical and paleoclimate change using basic principles on gas laws, radiant energy exchange, atmospheric circulation and oceanography, and use of proxy data. Topics include variability in modern climate, greenhouse gases, global warming, El Nino, Pacific decadal oscillation, ozone hole, volcanism, ice age climate and Milankovitch cycles. Also covers stable isotope profiles, plate tectonics, greenhouse climates, paleovegetation, modern species diversity, and snowball Earth.
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