GEOL 1308 - History of the Earth

Credits: 3 Class: 2 Lab: 2
An integrated lecture-laboratory approach to historical geology for non-science majors that will employ hand specimen and other techniques for the identification of fossils and will include major controversies involving evolution, as well as, discussion of the origin of life and co-evolution of our planet and life on it. Exercises will teach principles of structure geology, sequence of events, fundamental stratigraphic concepts and graphic correlation. These topics will be united in interpretation of geologic maps and their application to human culture.