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This is an archived course. A more recent version may be available at ocw.mit.edu.
This is a paleographic reconstruction of the Earth 260 million years ago - a computer simulation showing where the continents were likely located at this point in history. (Image courtesy of Ron Blakey. Used with permission.)
Prof. Roger Summons
Prof. Tanja Bosak
12.007
Spring 2009
Undergraduate
This course introduces parallel evolution of life and the environment. Life processes are influenced by chemical and physical processes in the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and the solid earth. In turn, life can influence chemical and physical processes on our planet. This course introduces the concept of life as a geological agent and examines the interaction between biology and the earth system during the roughly four billion years since life first appeared.
Summons, Roger, and Tanja Bosak. 12.007 Geobiology, Spring 2009. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/earth-atmospheric-and-planetary-sciences/12-007-geobiology-spring-2009 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA
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