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Understanding and predicting the processes that shape the Earth are
increasingly important aspects of a balanced education. Many important
political and social decisions are based directly on earth science questions
such as the critical dependence of technological societies on mineral and fuel
resources and the irreversible degradation of our environment resulting from
by-products of human activity. Rational decision-making in these areas
requires an understanding of the basic geological processes by which the Earth
works. At the same time, exploration of our solar system during the past four
decades has opened new vistas on the origin and evolution of moons and planets,
including Earth. Thus, the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences offers a
number of courses of general interest to the undergraduate community. These
courses are in the Natural Sciences division:
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