GEOL 106 Study Guide - Fault Scarp, Popular Science, Industrial Revolution
11 Feb 2014
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A lot of space-related stuff in 2007 50th anniversary of sputnik launch. Seeing earth from space realization of fragility of the closed system increase in environmental laws since 1969. Emergence of earth management" in popular science, idea of earth system instead of just earth. Earth system = set of interacting subsystems. Goal of solid-earth sciences: understand processes, sustaining sufficient supplies of natural resources, mitigate geological hazards, minimized and adjust to effects of global and environmental change. Earth-systems engineering (ese) = managing earth systems for the use and convenience of people: managing earth"s complex systems and their dynamics = new challenge of engineering, allenby: humans have always been conducting ese. To test his hypothesis: tree rings (natural climate) Ice cores: annual ice layers trap dust (with winter winds, lead contamination in greenland glaciers since the. Roman times fire and agriculture generate ghg global warming: allenby: earth is increasingly a product of human engineering/management.
