GEOL 314: Paleontology and Geobiology

Course 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 107andCHEM 117, orCHEM 119;GEOL 306.