ENVS 405
Economic Geoscience Fall 2012
Division III
Cross-listed GEOS 405
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Many of the materials in our daily lives–plastics, hydrocarbon fuels, building materials, sheet metals, electrical components, etc.– are won from the earth by finding and mining economic mineral resources. We will study how these deposits form and how they can be found. In this course we will integrate across several areas of the geosciences as we investigate the relationships between Earth history, plate tectonics, geochemistry, and the production of minable deposits. We will also consider the environmental aspects of mineral exploitation and the production and fate of pollutants.
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 15
Expected: 11
Class#: 1911
Grading: no pass/fail option, no fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evaluation will be based on one hour exam, a final exam, lab work, and seminar contributions
Prerequisites: two 200-level and one 300-level GEOS courses or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: GEOS and ENVS seniors, then GEOS and ENVS junior majors
Distributions: Division III
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENVS 405 Division III GEOS 405 Division III

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