PHY 171 - Planet Earth I

Credits 3Satisfies University Studies requirement: Science in Engaged Community Science of Natural World
Lecture / 3 hours per week
A course for non-science majors covering Earth’s origin and history; composition and structure of its interior, crust, oceans, and atmosphere; plate tectonics and sea floor spreading; seismology, volcanism and earthquakes; Earth’s magnetism; forces shaping Earth’s surface, faults and folds, erosion, sedimentation and weathering; and Earth’s materials, such as soil, minerals and ores, and igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks.

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