Spring 2025 Earth and Environmental Sciences GU4937 section AU1

CENOZOIC PALEOCEANOGRAPHY

Call Number 18504
Day & Time
Location
TR 1:10pm-2:25pm
To be announced
Points 3
Grading Mode Ungraded
Approvals Required None
Instructor Baerbel Hoenisch
Type LECTURE
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: college-level geology helpful but not required. Introduces the physical, chemical and biological processes that govern how and where ocean sediments accumulate. Major topics addressed are: modes of biogenic, terrigenous and authigenic sedimentation, depositional environments, pore fluids and sediment geochemistry, diagenesis, as well as biostratigraphy and sediment stratigraphic principles and methods. Second half of the semester focuses on major events in Cenozoic paleoceanogrpahy and paleoclimatology including orbital control of climate, long-term carbon cycle, extreme climate regimes, causes of ice ages in Earths history, human evolution, El NiƱo evolution, and long-term sea level history.
Web Site Vergil
Department Auditing
Enrollment 0 students (3 max) as of 12:05PM Monday, December 30, 2024
Subject Earth and Environmental Sciences
Number GU4937
Section AU1
Division Interfaculty
Open To Audit Program
Section key 20251EESC4937WAU1