Geology 100 - Physical Geology

Humans are intimately connected with and dependent upon the physical environment. We have only been present on the Earth for a brief span, but we try to understand how the Earth has evolved since its formation over four billion years ago. Our knowledge of the Earth is critical, not only for reconstructing its history, but also for helping us to understand issues relevant to our lives, such as the availability of natural resources, pollution, climate change, and natural hazards.In this course, we will perform a general survey of the physical Earth. In classroom, lab and field, we will examine rocks and minerals of which the solid Earth is composed, processes that generate the Earth's landforms, natural hazards associated with those processes, and geologic time.

Coreq: GEOL-100L.