Earth History

Earth & Planetary Sciences 201

Prof. Gary Smith

An investigation of climate change, global and continent-scale tectonic processes, and the evolutionary history of life over the last 4.5 billion years.

Prerequisites: E&PS 101 and 105L or EnvSc 101 and 102L

·         Course Organization and Information

·         Lecture Topics

·         Laboratory Topics

·         Field Trip

 

"Geologists inhabit scenes that no one ever saw, scenes of global sweep, gone and gone again, including seas, mountains, rivers, forests, and archipelagoes of aching beauty rising in volcanic violence to settle down quietly and then forever disappear --- almost disappear."

John McPhee
Annals of the Former World


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