GEO 142 Drifting Continents

A review of modern ideas of crustal movement, the origin of volcanoes and earthquakes, the continents and their history of breakup, drifting and collisions to create mountain belts, and the ocean basins and their formation by seafloor spreading. The course covers the evolution in thought of the theories of continental drift and plate tectonics.

Credits

1

Offered

Every semester