Finish Geology
1) Review: The composition and differentiation of the Earth
2) Minerals and surface rocks and
their environments.
3) Evolutions of rocks and environments erosion;
orogenies; depositions.
4) Interactions between life and geology: carbonate
rocks.
5) Review: Carbon cycle on Earth.
6) Review: Terrestrial hydrological cycle.
Astrobiology!
7) Why water?
8) Evolution of the early Earth
9) Early evolution of life on Earth
10) Evolution of Earth and its climate
12) Habitability
13) Climate change [overheads]
14) Comparative planetology: bulk compositions
15) Comparative planetology: volcanos, plate
tectonics, magnetic fields, craters
16) Comparative planetology: atmospheres