Lecture 16 outline and notes

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

11) The greenhouse effect

12) Habitability

13) Climate change [overheads]

14) Comparative planetology: bulk compositions

15) Comparative planetology: volcanos, plate tectonics, magnetic fields, craters

16) Comparative planetology: atmospheres

17) Comparative planetology: Titan's methane cycle


Back to main lectures page

Back to main course page