A second year of University arranged and jointly supervised full-time salaried work experience as a junior professional in a geologically oriented government agency or company. Digital image processing using a raster geographic information system. An applied, systematic process approach to landform development based upon threshold concepts. The geomorphic processes emphasized include mass movement, fluvial, aeolian, glacial, and karst geomorphology. Laboratory work is based upon aerial photographs, maps, field projects, and computer data analysis.
Secondary emphasis is placed on theories of ground water flow and flow-net analysis.
Also incorporated in this course will be study of classic examples of mineral deposits with their geologic and geographic occurrence. Representative projects should include a field component. Field Geology, not offered at APSU, can satisfy Geology electives requirement if taken in the summer at an institution approved in advance by the department. The diversification of life, evolution of communities, faunas and floras, paleoecologic reconstruction, and evolutionary patterns are all components of paleontology. The current and past literature is explored to gain insight into the patterns and processes in the history of life.