F 258 Nat Hist Bldg. And How It Got This Way.
Planet Earth is a very complex system that in many ways is like the body.
It is not static, but is dynamic and evolving with time. In this course we will learn how observations on the surface and on the interior of our planet have been used to construct a theory of the Earth. From observations on the present state of the Earth, we can backtrack and construct much about its history over the past 4.6 billion years. Our current view of the Earth differs greatly from theories of only a few decades ago, and some history of Earth science will be discussed. We will also learn what the Earth's interior is like, even though the deepest drillholes barely pierce the shallowest levels of the Earth.