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Geobiology | Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

This course introduces the parallel evolution of life and the environment. Life processes are influenced by chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and the solid earth. In turn, life can influence chemical and physical processes on our planet. This course explores the concept of life as a geological agent and examines the interaction between biology and the earth system during the roughly 4 billion years since...

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Science and Technology / Geoscience / Atmospheric Science

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Material Type:: Online Course
Date Added to MERLOT:: March 31, 2022
Date Modified in MERLOT:: March 31, 2022
Authors:: Roger Summons, MIT
Tanja Bosak, MIT
Submitter:: Cathy Swift

Primary Audience:: College Upper Division
Technical Format:: Website
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Language:: English
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Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International