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EASC 303W: Environmental Geoscience

Credits:
3
Pre-requisites:
60 credit hrs incl. 6 hrs EASC & GEOG 213
Lecture (hrs/week):
2
Terms:
Fall
Co-requisites:
None
Lab (hrs/week):
2
Instructors: Ward Writing
Course Notes:  

Description:

Environmental Geoscience is a branch of Earth Science that examines the relationship between people and their geologic habitat. There will be an emphasis on topics that relate to British Columbia.

Course Topics
  • Introductory concepts: human interaction with the geologic environment
  • Terrain types and terrain maps
  • Natural hazards and their mediation: mass-movements, volcanic, floods, earthquakes
  • Terrain analysis and the forestry industry
  • Groundwater utilization
  • Environmental geochemistry and impacts and consequences of resource extraction
  • Urban geology
  • Global change and its affects
Textbook:

Edward A. Keller, 2000, Environmental Geology, Eigth edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN:0-013-022466-9