GEOL 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Environmental Geology, Lead, Hydrosphere

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering
• Course: GEOL 106
• Professor: Daniel Layton- Matthews

Document Summary

Geol 106: environmental geology and natural and hazards. Charles lindbergh = first flight across atlantic. New model of earth = world changes as we learn to see it in new ways. And the way we see the world depends on how we use it. We made all this way to the moon to finally discover the earth. Earth system science = the earth system is a set of interacting subsystems. Splash : atmosphere, hydrosphere (water + ice, solid earth (rocks + soil, life (biota, stars and planets. > these interact in complex ways: mititage geological hazard . g floods. Humans can jump up and hit nature in the face. Nature can jump up and hit humans in the face => trying to minimize: minimize and adjust to the effects of global and environmental change = > regional and: sustain sufficient supplies of natural resources. Earth systems engineering: the world as human artifact (by brad allenby)