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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Geological Sciences 306. Processes shaping and affecting the earth's surface, and application of resultant land forms in interpretation of geologic structure, stratigraphy, and neotectonics.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Geological Sciences 306. Geologic relations, origin, distribution, and economics of metallic and nonmetallic mineral deposits.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Geological Sciences 306. History of petroleum exploration; statistics of energy use; principles of well logging; theories of petroleum generation, migration, and accumulation; exploration and production techniques; case studies of important oil fields.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Geological Sciences 324; Chemistry 201; Mathematics 150. Fundamental principles of low- and high-temperature geochemistry. Origin of the elements; formation of the solar system; differentiation of the earth; weathering at the earth's surface; chemistry of natural waters. Laboratory methods applied to geological problems. Not open to students with credit in Geological Sciences 530L.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Geological Sciences 307, Mathematics 252, Physics 197. Recommended: Physics 195L, 196L, 197L. Analog and digital data collection, processing, modeling and error estimation. Computer-aided examples and field tests from seismics, gravity, magnetics, and electromagnetics including magnetotellurics.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Geological Sciences 205 (not required but recommended for Emphases in Geochemistry and Geophysics) and 324. Sedimentologic description and interpretation of the textures and structures of sediments and sedimentary rocks. Stratigraphic analysis of stratal succession, age relationships, and correlation on local and global scales.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Geological Sciences 205 and either Biology 100- 100L, 101-101L or 201A, and Geological Sciences 536. Principles of paleontology, including ecology and evolution. Tools of paleontology, including biomechanics, shape analysis, phylogeny, population analysis, study of biogeographic, temporal, and environmental distribution. Focus on using biology to solve geologic problems and vice versa.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Geological Sciences 205, and either Geological Sciences 324, 502, 514, or 537. Plate tectonic origin and history of the ocean basins. Formation and distribution of sediments in response to biologic, chemical, and geologic processes.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisites: Mathematics 121 and 122, or 150; Physics 180A or 195. Physical environment of oceans including heat, water, and salt budgets, physical properties of sea water, sea ice, air-sea relationships, effects of light and sound, distribution of temperature, salinity, density, surface current, deep circulation, water mass formation, instruments and methods of study.
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3.00 Credits
Two lectures and three hours of laboratory. Prerequisites: Geological Sciences 306. Relationships between geologic processes and works of humans. Topics include rock and soil mechanics, ground water flow, slope stability, seismicity, land subsidence, and evaluation of geologic materials with respect to dam sites, tunnel alignments, and building foundations.
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