Geology:

0) Review: The composition and differentiation of the Earth

1) Review: Minerals and surface rocks and their environments.

2) Review: Evolutions of rocks and environments (erosion; orogenies; depositions).

3) Interactions between life and geology: carbonate rocks.

4) Carbon cycle on Earth.

5) Terrestrial hydrological cycle.

Astrobiology!

6) Why water?

7) Evolution of the early Earth

8) Early evolution of life on Earth

9) Evolution of Earth and its climate

10) The greenhouse effect

11) Habitability

Next Tuesday: Finish this and comparative planetology

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