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The Earth and Life Through Time (Geology 011) is a survey of
the history of the Earth in which the fundamental changes in the physical and biological
world are discussed. Much of this course is designed around the basic
principles of stratigraphy and sedimentology: without the stratigraphic record
our understanding of the history of the earth would be quite limited. The
approach to this course is to emphasize the methods, problems and ambiguity
associated with studies of the Earth's history. To this end, considerable time
is spent discussing competing hypotheses for different problems and ways in
which geoscientests may solve those problems. The fundamentals learned in the
first half of the course are integrated into several comprehensive exercises
that bring together many basic principles of stratigraphy, sedimentology,
structural geology, and tectonics. This course is designed as an introduction
to sedimentary geology.
Prequisites: None GenEd:
Yes Offered:
Winter, Annually
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WINTER
2003
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The Missing Link
- Fins to Limbs
The Case of the
Flying Dinosaurs
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First posted: October 1996; Last updated: 23 March 2003