Environmental Earth Science

Illustration of the water cycle.
The water cycle describes the sources, sinks, and flow of our most important natural resource. (Image courtesy of USGS.)

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MIT Course Number

12.102

As Taught In

Fall 2005

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

The geologic record demonstrates that our environment has changed over a variety of time scales from seconds to billions of years. This course explores the many ways in which geologic processes control and modify the Earth's environment and serves as an introduction to Environmental Earth Science Field Course (12.120), which addresses field applications of these principles in the American Southwest.

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Samuel Bowring. 12.102 Environmental Earth Science. Fall 2005. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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