A one-semester course designed to introduce students to the study of the Earth as a dynamic, evolving planet, with emphasis on how internal and surface processes combine to shape the environment.

Themes will include:

• Earth’s interior as revealed by seismic waves
• Earth history and global tectonics
• mountain-building
• formation of continents
• earthquake activity and volcanism
• landscape evolution in a variety of settings
• climate history and global biogeochemical cycles
• atmospheric and oceanic circulation
• ice ages
• the influence of man.

NOTE- EPSc 201 replaces EPSc 200A; you can not get credit for both