SCI 249Continents Adrift
- Faculty
- Science
- Last listed
- 1983–84
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1973–74 to 1983–84; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
A review of the current revolution in the Earth Sciences. This course will trace the evolution of the Earth as we know it today. primarily from the new viewpoint afforded by the hypothesis of seafloor spreading, plate tectonics and continental drift. Students whose major field is Earth Sciences may not take this course for | credit.
As printed in the 1983–84 calendar, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1973–74 to 1983–84, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1983–84 1 calendar
A review of the current revolution in the Earth Sciences. This course will trace the evolution of the Earth as we know it today. primarily from the new viewpoint afforded by the hypothesis of seafloor spreading, plate tectonics and continental drift.
Students whose major field is Earth Sciences may not take this course for | credit.
1980–81 to 1982–83 3 calendars
A new fook at earth from the viewpoint of plate
tectonics. The geophysical evidence for this concept .
is reviewed, as are its implications for such diverse phenomena as earthquake prediction, geomagnetic reversals, mineral exploration, the evolution of life, and the geology of Canada.
(Students whose major field is Earth Sciences may not take this course for credit).
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1973–74 to 1979–80 7 calendars
A review of the current revolution in the Earth Sciences. This course will trace the evolution of the Earth as we know it today, primarily from the new viewpoint afforded by the hypothesis of seafloor spreading, plate tectonics and continental drift.
(Students whose major field is Earth Sciences may not take this course for credit) No prereq.
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit