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How We Know What Happened in Earth's Past - Like Ancient Climate, Geology, and Extinctions

GEO GIRL via YouTube

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This course explains how physical, chemical, and biological proxies preserved in rocks help reconstruct ancient climates and other events in Earth's history. It introduces isotope, trace-element, biomarker, and fossil evidence.

Syllabus

How we reconstruct Earth’s past
Why we study Earth’s past
How paleoclimate proxies work
Physical proxies
Chemical proxies
Stable isotope chemical proxies
Carbon isotope example
Oxygen isotope example
Sulfur isotope example
Trace element chemical proxies
Biochemical proxies biomarkers
Biological proxies fossils
Terrestrial biological proxies
Aquatic biological proxies
Honorable mention proxies

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GEO GIRL

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