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| Fundamental Concepts: How Humans View and Study the Earth | |
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| Introduction to Environmental Geosciences | |
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| Example: Introductory Riddle Regarding Population Growth | |
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| Earth's Changing Environment and Humans | |
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| Critical Issues In Environmental Geosciences | |
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| Science as a Way of Knowing | |
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| The History of Science | |
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| Limits to Science | |
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| An Emerging Environmental World View | |
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| Dynamic Earth Systems | |
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| An Ongoing Experiment: The Eruption of Mt. Pinatubo and Global Cooling Earth Systems | |
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| Links and Cycles Among Earth Systems | |
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| Cycles | |
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| Energy | |
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| Earth Dynamics | |
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| Time and Change: Earth and Human History | |
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| Experiment: Determining When Something Began to Happen from its Decay | |
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| Temporal Aspects of Earth Systems | |
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| Geologic Time : A Temporal Perspective of the Earth | |
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| The Absolute Geologic Time Scale | |
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| Solid Earth Systems | |
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| The Crustal Rock System | |
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| Experiment: An Ancient Experiment with Melted Sand | |
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| The Geosphere and Humans | |
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| Processes | |
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| Resources | |
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| Hazards and Wastes | |
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| Environmental Management | |
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| Environmental and Global Change | |
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| Soil and Weathering Systems | |
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| Experiment: Unvegetated Soils and Soil Erosion | |
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| Soil and Humans | |
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| Processes | |
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| Resources | |
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| Hazards and Wastes | |
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| Environmental Management | |
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| Environmental and Global Change | |
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| Fluid Systems | |
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| Surface Water Systems | |
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| Example: Finding Ancient Rivers in the Desert with Satellites | |
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| Surface Water and Humans | |
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| Processes | |
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| Resources | |
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| Hazards and Wastes | |
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| Environmental Management | |
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| Environmental and Global Change | |
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| Ground Water Systems | |
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| Example: Getting Water out of Sand and Gravel | |
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| Ground Water and Humans | |
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| Processes | |
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| Resources | |
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| Hazards and Wastes | |
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| Environmental Management | |
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| Environmental and Global Change | |
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| Atmospheric Systems | |
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| Example: Changing Climates by Altering Gases in the Atmosphere | |
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| The Atmosphere and Humans | |
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| Processes | |
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| Resources | |
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| Hazards | |
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| Environmental and Waste Management | |
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| Environmental and Global Change | |
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| Oceans and Coastal Water Systems | |
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| Example: Salinity, Density, and Ocean Currents | |
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| Oceans and Humans | |
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| Processes | |
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| Resources | |
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| Hazards and Wastes | |
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| Environmental Management | |
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| Environmental and Global Change | |
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| Energy Systems and Changing Earth Systems | |
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| Earth's Energy Systems | |
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| Example: Using Solar Energy to do Mechanical Work | |
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| Energy and Humans | |
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| The Energy Cascade | |
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| Energy as a Human Resource | |
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| Environmental Impacts of Energy Use | |
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| Energy Policy and the Environment | |
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| Causes and Indicators of Global Environmental Change | |
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| Example: California Droughts | |
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| What is Global Environmental Change? | |
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| Origin of Earth's Climate: Insights from Other Planets | |
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| Faint Young Sun Paradox | |
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| Causes of Climate Change | |
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| Indicators of Past Climatic and Environmental Change | |
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| History of Global Environmental Change | |
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| Example: Dessication of the Mediterranean Sea | |
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| Introduction | |
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| History of Global Change | |
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| Human Evolution and Environmental Change | |
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| Earth at the Last Glacial Maximum | |
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| Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age | |
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| Humans as Agents of Environmental Change | |