Geobiology 1300-WGEBIOL
Course comprises:
1. What is geobiology?
2. The global carbon cycle: biological processes
3. The global carbon cycle: geological processes
4. The global nitrogen cycle
5. The global sulphur cycle
6. The global iron cycle
7. The global oxygen cycle
8. Microbial-mineral interactions: bio- and organomineralisation processes
9. Eukaryotic skeletal formation
10. Plants and animals as geobiological agents
11. Molecular biology’s contribution to geobiology
- Molecular approaches used in geobiology
- Molecular clocks
- Ancient DNA
12. Stable isotope geobiology
13. Biomarkers: informative molecules for studies in geobiology
14. The fossil record of microbial life
15. Geobiology of the Archaean, Proterozoic and Phaneorozoic
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Learning outcomes
The student will learn the theoretical aspects of geobiology as an introduction to the biological and geological techniques used to decipher how organisms influence the physical Earth and vice versa, and how biological and physical processes have interacted through the planet’s long history. Specifically, through experimental and field examples, students will learn how organisms participate in the Earth system and what consequences these activities have had or may have for local to global environmental states.
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