Description
On a universal scale, the Earth is a relatively young and spry 4.5 billion years old. In those billions of years, tectonic plates are crashing and retreating, shifting oceans, raising mountains, and rifting continents in two. On a human scale, the Earth is impossibly old. We have difficulty imagining these forces and their consequences, having arrived here ourselves just a moment ago. This Geology and English literature LNC investigates deep time, the formation of continents, the rock and mineral evidence left behind, and the influence of these grand and ongoing processes on the imaginations of humans. In this course we will learn to read both the Earth itself and writing about the Earth produced by a few of its most recent inhabitants. Meets General Education Distribution Area VI.