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Catalog Description
Man’s natural physical environment; the landscape, rocks and minerals, rivers and oceans, volcanism, earthquakes, and other processes inside the earth; effects of man’s use of the earth and its resources. Laboratory study of minerals, rocks, and topographic and geologic maps. Lecture/laboratory/field trip course. (3 hrs. lect.; 3 hrs. lab.)
Student Learning Outcomes
- Understand the importance of plate tectonics in creating, modifying and recycling the surface of the earth.
- Understand the structure of the earth and how that is known, and its relationship to geophysical, geological, atmospheric and oceanographic processes.
- Comprehend the vastness of geological time and how time is measured thus the time-scale known, in addition to the history recorded in rocks of geological/atmospheric/oceanographic processes in conjunction with those that influenced the organic evolution of life.
- Realize geological hazards and the mitigation of those hazards, as well as the politics of managing a changing landscape.
- Describe the formation of mineral deposits and hydrocarbon accumulations, with an appreciation of their impermanence as resources.
- Know formational processes, types and uses of soils, minerals, fossils and rocks.
- Understand the rock cycle, its driving mechanisms, rates of cyclicity, and consequent products for interpreting the 15 billion years of earth history, and applying that knowledge towards predicting the planet’s future.
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