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Dec 02, 2024
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GEOL 231 - Natural Hazards Units: 3 Earth and human-induced processes and their effects on human populations. Topics include earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, coastal erosion, floods, severe storms, atmospheric and water pollution.
Credit Restrictions: Not for Geology or Environmental Sciences major or minor credit.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground. Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice). Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to: - Demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental principles of natural hazards by applying these core ideas and skills: Understand the energetics of natural disasters - earth-driven versus solar-driven processes.
- Understand plate tectonics - the fundamental and underlying theory that accounts for and predicts all geological systems and is the specific cause of earthquakes, volcanoes and also gravitationally-driven mass-wasting events.
- Geologic Time - appreciate the incredible magnitude of geologic time and its fundamental importance to all natural phenomena and the different timescales involved.
- Understand solar-driven phenomena - weather and climate-related hazards, global-climate change and related fires and flooding.
- Understand the fundamental difference between hazard and risk, and how to mitigate risk.
- Understanding the very real nature of the risks associated with living in the San Francisco Bay area and around the world.
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