Paleontology and Geobiology

Catalog description

Credits 4. 3 Lecture Hours. 3 Lab Hours. Biosphere-geosphere interactions, including procaryote controls on sedimentary geochemistry and organismal distributions, and fossil preservation; fossils in the context of evolutionary theory and global change; identification of important groups of marine fossils; use of fossils to determine the stratigraphic age of rocks and the history of life on Earth. Prerequisites: CHEM 107 and CHEM 117 , or CHEM 119 ; GEOL 306 .