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Lecture Notes

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1Overview of course; time scales; formation of matter by nucleosynthesis; introduction to geological (PDF - 6.1 MB)Roger Summons(PDF)
2How stars and planets form; Earth segregation; formation and composition of early atmosphere; characteristics of the habitable zone (PDF - 4.3 MB)Richard Binzel(PDF)
3Theories about the origin of life (PDF - 1.4 MB)Roger Summons(PDF)
4Evidence for antiquity of life (PDF - 1.4 MB)Roger Summons(PDF)
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Antiquity and origin of life (cont.)

Subsurface biosphere (PDF - 6.5 MB)

Roger Summons(PDF)
6Redox chemistry; anaerobic metabolism, energy yields, deep subsurface biosphere (PDF)Roger Summons(PDF)
7Oxygenic photosynthesis; the rise of atmospheric O2 (PDF - 6.8 MB)Roger Summons(PDF)
8Techniques in geobiology 1: Fractionated isotopes (PDF)Roger Summons(PDF)
9Techniques in geobiology 2: More about fractionated isotopes (PDF)Roger Summons(PDF)
10Biogeochemical carbon cycle (PDF - 1.7 MB)Roger Summons(PDF)
11Long-term climate cycles 1: Faint young sun paradox; CO2 climate connection; snowball earth (PDF - 1.9 MB)Roger Summons(PDF)
12Evolution and radiation of animals (and plants???)Charles Marshall(PDF)
13Mass extinctions and re-radiation 1; PC-C boundary, P-T boundary (PDF - 2.5 MB)Roger Summons(PDF)
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Mass extinctions and re-radiation 2; K-T boundary, LPTM

Volcanism, carbon cycle perturbation or impact? (PDF - 6.2 MB)

Roger Summons(PDF)
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Techniques in geobiology 3

Genomics

DNA, sequencing, trees, environmental shotguns

Roger Summons(PDF)
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Techniques in geobiology 4

Lipid biomarkers; life's three domains; fossil and biogeochemical evidence for their presence and evolution through geological time

Roger Summons(PDF)
17Sedimentary records of life and environment; fossils and their preservationRoger Summons(PDF)
18Sedimentary records of microbes and their environmental preferences; marine crenarchaeota and tex 86; AOM; anammoxD'Arcy Meyer-Dombard(PDF)
19Microbially-dominated ecosystems: Extreme environmentsD'Arcy Meyer-Dombard(PDF)
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Fossil fuels: Fate of buried organic carbon; petroleum and natural gas occurrence and distribution (PDF - 3.7 MB)

Methane hydrates

Roger Summons(PDF)
21Climate change: Mesozoic warming, cenozoic cooling; pleistocene glaciations (PDF - 5.5 MB)Ed Boyle(PDF)
22Holocene climate; abrupt climate change; anthropogenic forcing (PDF - 4.7 MB)Ed Boyle(PDF)
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