EAS105 : The Dynamic Earth through time

Instructor : Martyn Unsworth (CCIS 3-102)

Class announcements

Final exam. Please check the 2015 exam schedule

Office Hours : Tuesday and Wednesday, 1-3 pm, CCIS 3-102 - or e-mail me for an appointment

Highly recommended textbook : The Changing Earth, Monroe and Wickander, Seventh Edition, 2014.

• WWW links
• Lecture notes available to enrolled students on eClass
• Exams - past and present available to enrolled students on eClass
• Image of the week gallery
• Geology in the News

Recommended reading

• The origin of continents and oceans, Alfred Wegener, Dover, 1966.
• Wonderful Life : The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, S.J. Gould, Norton, 1989
• T-rex and the crater of doom, Walter Alvarez, Penguin, 1997.
• The Deep Hot Biosphere : The myth of Fossil Fuels Thomas Gold, Copernicus Books, 1999.
• The Greenpeace to Amchitka : An Environmental Odyssey, Robert Hunter, 2004.
• On Methuselah's Trail : Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions, Peter Ward, W.H. Freeman, 1992.

Last updated January 2015