ESCI 145 Earth and Life History Laboratory

Optional laboratory to accompany ESCI 141 Earth and Life History. Topics of lab exercises will include common minerals and rocks, especially sedimentary rocks and depositional environments, relative time, rock and fossil stratigraphy, radiometric dating techniques, stratigraphic sequences, geologic maps and cross sections, fossils, paleoecology, and evolution. Required for Earth Science majors. One three-hour laboratory per week.