General survey of the geology of the ocean floor from beaches to ocean trenches including sediments, processes, tectonics and history. A comprehensive introduction to the nature of all coastal environments including beaches dunes, tidal inlets, estuaries, reefs, and river deltas. Emphasis will be on the natural estate of these environments and how human activities have and will impact them. Consideration of coastal management policies involving economics, ethics, policy, and environmental law. Mapping and field description techniques introduced.
Trip requires camping and vigorous physical activity.
May be repeated up to 9 hours, as destinations vary. Units include the Nile and hydropolitics, deserts, and climate, rifting and hominid evolution, and mining and politics. No science prerequisites. Cross listed as AFA 4154. Ground water flow systems, ground water geology, introduction to numerical and analytical models of ground water flow.