GEOS 200 - Foundations of Geology

Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 3
Credits: 4

Prerequisite: Geoscience majors/minors, environmental engineering, energy management, anthropology, geography, and regional planning majors, biology majors (all tracks), or instructor permission.
Introduces the geological sciences, including the study of the Earth’s interior; plate tectonics; minerals and crystallography; igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rocks and their cycling; geologic time; crustal deformation and. Laboratory exercises will emphasize hand-on learning of basic geology skills including mineral and rock identification, understanding the geometry of subsurface geologic structures, and topographic and geologic map reading. (Also offered as ENVE 200. These courses may be substituted for each other and be used interchangeably for D/F repeats but may not be counted for duplicate credit.)