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Medium Of InstructionsMode Of LearningMode Of Delivery
EnglishSelf StudyVideo and Text Based

Courses and Certificate Fees

Fees InformationsCertificate AvailabilityCertificate Providing Authority
INR 2188yesCoursera

The Syllabus

Videos
  • Course Introduction
  • What is Science? 
  • One of the Big Questions - How Old? 
  • Birth of a Science - The Beginnings of Geology 
  • Discovering Deep Time
  • Putting Numbers on Deep Time 
Practice Exercise
  • Science and Geology in Search of Deep Time

Videos
  • Origins - From Star Stuff to Planets
  • The Early Earth - First Oceans, Atmosphere, and Life
  • The Early Earth - Formation of Continents and Plate Tectonics
  • Building North America
  • Probing the Deep Crust in the Rocky Mountains 
Practice Exercise
  • Origins: Stars to Planets, Continents, Oceans, and Atmospheres

Videos
  • Reading Rock Layers - A Primer on Rocks and the Rock Cycle
  • Brave New World - Precambrian Ends and Modern Earth Begins 
  • The Great Unconformity And Phanerozoic Seas
  • Field Trip to Flagstaff Mountain: Uplifted Roots of the Rockies and the Great Unconformity
  • Pangea Forms and the Ancestral Rocky Mountains Rise
  • Field Trip to Flagstaff Mountain: The Fountain Formation and the Ancestral Rockies
Practice Exercise
  • Seas and Ancient Mountains of North America

Videos
  • Field Trip to Flagstaff Mountain: Laramide Orogeny and the Tilting of the Flatirons
  • "How Many Years Must a Mountain Exist" - The Wash of Mesozoic Seas, Rocks, and Fossils
  • The Rise of the Modern Rockies
  • Cenozoic Extension, Uplift, and the Final Touches
  • Opportunity & Responsibility: The Price of Science
Practice Exercise
  • The Rise of the Modern Rocky Mountains

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