EES2110 — Earth's Climate History
What is it that makes Earth habitable? What makes earth's climate stable over geologic time? In this class, we will examine energy sources to earth's surface and the processes that change them over geologic time. We will do this within a framework of mass balance—comparing inputs to outputs at varying scales, investigating the evolution of climate, life and tectonics through time. Our goal is to identify, investigate, characterize, and assess the principal processes that shape earth's surface environment from 4.54 billion years ago to present. To accomplish this aim, we will learn how geoscientists read Earth's history, and what tools they use to do so. This course may have a course fee. prereq: GEOL or EES 1110 or 1130 or 1610 or AST 1040 or GEOG 1414 or instructor consent; credit will not be granted if already received for GEOL 2110