Academic Calendar - 2024

Western University Academic Calendar. - 2024
Western Main Campus

Earth Sciences 4462A/B

GLACIAL GEOLOGY AND CLIMATE


Explore glacier types, dynamics, budgets. Study glacial movement and erosional depositional landforms. Examine glacial sediments, facies, environments. Review sea-ice, ice shelves, fjords, lakes, bogs, paleosols, and permafrost. Investigate Quaternary timescale, climate change, dating methods, deep-sea records, ice-core stratigraphy, and Holocene climate. Analyze climate-human interactions, ancient glaciations, and glacial resources.

Prerequisite(s): 0.5 course from Earth Sciences 2260A/B, Earth Sciences 3314A/B, Geography 2330A/B, Geography 3334A/B, Geography 3350A/B, the former Geography 3333A/B, or permission of the Department.

Extra Information: 2 lecture hours, 3 laboratory hours.

Course Weight: 0.50
Breadth: CATEGORY C i  
Subject Code: EARTHSCI

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