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Catalog Description
10 half-day Saturday field trip and laboratory sessions relating to the Geology of O‘ahu.
Prerequisite: Credit for or registration in GG 101, GG 103, or consent of instructor.
Note: the course meets the laboratory/field trip requirement for GG 103. Each lecture and laboratory/field trip course requires a separate registration. In addition to tuition, field costs are approximately $250.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Understand through field observation, with field and laboratory exercises, geological processes that construct, modify, and destroy the Hawaiian landscape.
- Realize the hazards, mitigation of these hazards and benefits of Hawaiian volcanism, and its relationship to island culture(s).
- Appreciate current research and studies of Hawaiian volcanism through visits to appropriate museums and research laboratories.
- Understand the vastness of geological time applied to Hawai‘i, and how time is measured thus the time-scale known.
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