Regional tectonics of selected fold-mountain systems. Laboratory and field trip. Introduction to field-based scientific investigations. Experience in various environmental sciences including ecology, environmental chemistry, geology, hydrology, and meteorology. Field exercises are carried out within an instrumented demonstration watershed close to the Judson Mead Geologic Field Station in Montana.
Course includes visits to several Superfund sites.
Laboratory study of sediments and sedimentary rocks. Sem., II Sem. Application of biological principles and use of fossils in the study of earth history. Chemistry in the study of the earth, employing elementary chemical thermodynamics, the phase rule, chemical equilibria, redox reactions, the radioactive decay law, and organic chemistry. Field and laboratory research in selected problems in geology.