Core Studies 8.2 - Science In Modern
Life
Summer 1999
Professor Stephen Aja
Office: Room 4223N, Ingersoll Hall
General Course Outline
Introduction and Background
Historical Concepts
Earth System Science
Earth Materials (Minerals & Rocks)
The Evolving Earth: Plate Tectonics
Continnetal Drift
Seismicity & the internal structure of the earth
Sea-Floor Spreading
Resources from the Earth
Global Environmental Change
Global Circulation in the Atmosphere and the Ocean
Biogeochemical Cycles
The Earth's Changing Climate
A Planet Under Stress: Effects of Global Change