Geology 1100 is a 0.5 credit course taught through the Department of
Land Resource Science. It is an introduction to earth science. Because
the field of geology covers a lot of ground, the instructor has some liberty
to choose an area of emphasis. I am teaching 1100 from the perspective
of geological environments as incubators for the origin and evolution of
life. Basic topics in physical and historical geology are covered
in the first part of the course; for example, plate tectonics, rocks and
minerals, and landforms. The second half uses the knowledge from
the first half to consider questions about how, where and why life began.
Dr. Michael Brookfield in LRS also teaches this course; he places more
emphasis on physical geology than I do, if that interests you more.
The images on this page are about iron (an important component of rocks
and life): 1) Martian terrain photographed by a Mars rover, courtesy
of NASA, and 2) a subsurface microorganism that can �breathe� iron instead
of oxygen, from my own research. |
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