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Syllabus

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Course Description


The geologic record demonstrates that our environment has changed over a variety of time scales from seconds to billions of years. This course explores the many ways in which geologic and anthropologic processes control and modify the Earth's environment. Topics include: chemical and physical interactions between the solid Earth, its oceans and atmosphere; the effect of catastrophic events such as volcanic eruptions and earthquakes on the environment; geologic hazards; and our role in modifying the environment through earth resource development. This course serves as an introduction to Environmental Earth Science Field Course (12.120), which addresses field applications of these principles in the American Southwest.



Main Text


Amazon logo Merritts, D., A. de Wet, and K. Menking. Environmental Geology: an Earth System Science Approach. New York, NY: W.H. Freeman and Company, 1998. ISBN: 9780716728344.



Supplemental Texts


Amazon logo Keller, E. A. Environmental Geology. 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1999. ISBN: 9780130224668.

Amazon logoMontgomery, C. W. Environmental Geology. 6th ed. Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2002. ISBN: 9780073661957.

Amazon logoPipken, B. W., and D. D. Trent. Geology and the Environment. 4th ed. California, CA: Brooks Cole, 2004. ISBN: 9780534490515.

Amazon logoThompson, G. R., and J. Turk. Environmental Geoscience. 3rd ed. Ft Worth, TX: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1997. ISBN: 9780030988660.



Grades



ACTIVITIESPERCENTAGES
Problem Sets30%
Exams30%
Project30%
Attendance and Participation10%

 








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