Current knowledge and approaches to studying the Earth covered by ocean, from shoreline to deepest trench; depth and form of the seafloor as lower boundary of water that moves above it; composition of marine sediments; modes of transport into and within ocean basins plus global cycles and history they record; geologic and geophysical tools used to determine this record and infer properties and evolution of ocean crust
Undergraduate Courses
01:460:451 Marine Geology
- Credits: 3
- Instructor(s): Prof. Wright, Miller
- Prerequisites: 01:460:300