GEOL 206 - It’s About Time: A History of Earth, Life, and Global Change (GE)

Credits: (4)

Prerequisites: GEOL 105 or permission of instructor.
Explores how the Earth’s solid, fluid, atmospheric, and living systems have evolved and interacted over the immensity of geologic time, and how the rock and fossil records are analyzed to reconstruct the co-evolution of Earth systems and life. Students will examine the origin of the Earth and solar system, birth of the oceans and continents, effects of plate tectonics, and the changing atmosphere and climate through time, as well as biological evolution and classification of important groups of fossils, causes and effects of rapid evolution events, and mass extinctions.

REAL Area R

Note(s): No REAL R designation for GEOL 206. The original GEOL 106 had a designation of R.