GEOL 106- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 85 pages long!)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: John Hanes

Document Summary

We do not have unlimited resources: edgar dean mitchell (apollo 14 astronaut, the world changes as we learn to see it in new ways , aka. Sputnik: october 4, 1957, first thing in space. Five reservoirs of earth system: atmosphere, hydrosphere (water & ice, solid earth (rocks & soil) 4: stars and planets life (biota, these interact in complex ways, how can you mine/extract materials with the least environmental impact, can"t have any cities without them. So there has clearly been an increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide over the last 60 years. It was though to be due to in winter we crank up the heat and increase. So, we saw that there clearly has been an increase in co2 over the past 60 years. **atmospheric co2 over the last 600 000 years: cycled between 180 and 280ppm. Except: since the industrial revolution, it has risen to 395ppm strongly implies human-caused increase in atmospheric co2 over the last few.