This website is the homepage to an Earth history course, at Ithaca College, taught from a planetary science perspective. Users can find links to Power Point lecture presentations, reading quizzes and answers, exams and team reports. The course uses a system approach and helps students determine how and why the atmosphere and climate have changed over time. The course emphasizes climate history and biogeochemical cycling and focuses on the Precambrian and the Late Quaternary. The instructor reviews basic physics, geochronology, and plate tectonics, before going on to cover the formation of the Solar System, the climate evolutions of Mars and Venus, then Earth's Hadean, Archaean (emphasis on Oxygen Revolution), Proterozoic, and Phanerozoic Eons. This website is a good source for Earth history information from a slightly different perspective than those traditionally used in geology and biology Earth history courses.
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