12.007 Geobiology, Spring 2007
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Author(s)
Summons, Roger
Alternative Title
Geobiology
Date Issued
June 2007
Abstract
The interactive Earth system: biology in geologic, environmental and climate change throughout Earth history. Since life began it has continually shaped and re-shaped the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere and the solid earth. Subject introduces the concept of "life as a geological agent" and examines the interaction between biology and the earth system during the roughly 4 billion years since life first appeared. Topics include the origin of the solar system and the early Earth atmosphere; the origin and evolution of life and its influence on climate up through and including the modern age and the problem of global warming; the global carbon cycle; and astrobiology.
Subjects
Big Bang
carbon cycle
geobiochemistry
Solar System formation
evolution
isotopic analysis: climate
climate change
Snowball earth
mesozoic
proterozoic
mass extinctions
paleoclimate
antiquity of life
carbon dating
origin of life
phylogenic trees
MIT Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
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