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2025-2026 Graduate Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Graduate Catalog

GEOL 638 - Marine Geology


Credits 3

Foundations to the formation and evolution of Earth’s ocean basins: basics of plate tectonics; geomorphology of basins; the formation and evolution of oceanic crust; sedimentation processes from near-shore to abyssal plains; the role oceans play in global processes and cycles. Crosslisted with GEOL 438. Credit at the 600-level requires additional work.



Prerequisites
Graduate standing.