EAS100- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 98 pages long!)

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
• Course: EAS100
• Professor: Korhan Ayranci

Document Summary

Eas 100 - lecture #1 - introduction to earth science. All of earth"s organisms as well as any organic matter not yet decomposed. Human impacts on the natural earth system. Eas 100 - lecture #2 - investigating earth systems credit. Landscape modification: dam, cities, forestries, wines, farming. In any undisturbed sequence of rocks, the youngest layer is on top and the oldest on bottom. Interpreted the contact b/w the lower rocks and the upper rocks as an ancient erosion surface, produced by processes similar to those operating at the present day. Layers of sediment are originally deposited horizontally under the action of gravity. Important to the analysis of folded and tilted strata. Ancient features of the earth are to be interpreted in terms of physical and chemical processes that operate at the present day. Laws: theories which are well established, and for which no exceptions are known. Earth science uses principles of laws derived from other sciences.