EARTH 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Distant Future, Red Giant, Outer Core
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Oceanography an invitation to marine science, 8th ed, tom garrison. Labs on gauchospace- print out, complete pre labs before section. 3-29-16 get oceanography textbook from bookstore on friday. Lab 4 week of 26th of april might be different location. Exams: lecture (including in the news), reading, labs. The objects in our solar system condensed about 5 billion years ago. The ocean and atmosphere are the least dense layers. Life on earth may have arisen in the ocean. Other planets and moons may have, or may have had, oceans. Big bang = term that describes the beginning of the universe. Our sun, like all normal stars, is powered by nuclear fusion. Cargo ship cracked in half, heavy fuel oil could get sucked into cooling station of nearby nuclear power plant water (242 tons) Two nucleons form together to form a larger nuclei.
