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| Course Title: | Geologic Time | ||||||||||||||||
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| Status: | Section Status: OPEN Available Seats: 23 Enrolled Total: 77 | ||||||||||||||||
| Description: | GEOS 3128 - Geologic Time (1 semester hour) Notions of immortality and concepts of eternity--the struggle to understand human existence and the physical world. The geocentric universe--a Graeco-Christian compromise. The Renaissance and the slow acceptance of the Copernican universe. James Hutton's Earth machine and William Smith's strata--the progeny of the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution. Biostratigraphy, the great stratigraphers and Victorian reaction to the realization of Earth's antiquity. Lord Kelvin's arguments for a young Earth. Discovery of radioactivity and the refutation of Kelvin. Patterson and the age of the solar system. Modern rock dating techniques. A walk through geologic time. (0-1) Y | ||||||||||||||||
| Core Curriculum | Texas Core Area 030 - Natural Sciences - Chart II | ||||||||||||||||
| Instructor(s): | William Manton email: manton@utdallas.edu | ||||||||||||||||
| Schedule: | Class Location and Times Location: UT Dallas - Main Campus Monday & Wednesday: 7:00pm-8:15pm SLC 2.303 Term: Spring 2013 SLC Building - Floor 2 - Room 2.303  | ||||||||||||||||
| College: | School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics | ||||||||||||||||
| Syllabus: | Syllabus for Geologic Time (geos3128.5s1.13s) taught by William Manton. | ||||||||||||||||
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