Semester:
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- Professors: Javier Ortega-Hernandez, Nadja Drabron
- Term: Spring
- School: Faculty of Arts and Sciences
- Course ID: 108969
- Subject Area: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Within our solar system, Earth is distinguished as the planet with life. Life was born of planetary processes, has been sustained for some four billion years by planetary processes, and through time has emerged as a set of planetary processes that is important in its own right. In this course we will investigate the ways that Earth and life interact, focusing in particular on the biogeochemical cycles of major elements. This will provide a framework for interpreting the history of life reconstructed from fossils and phylogeny.