EPS/LS 170AC - Spring 2006

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EPS 170AC: Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society - Spring 2006. Intersection of geological processes with American cultures in the past, present, and future. Overview of ethnogeology including traditional knowledge of sources and uses of earth materials and their cultural influences today. Scientific approach to study of tectonic controls on the genesis and global distribution of energy fuels, metals, and industrial minerals. Evolution and diversity of opinion in attitudes about resource development, environmental management, and conservation on public, private, and tribal lands. Impending crisis in renewable energy and the imperative of resource literacy.

Crossroads of Earth Resources and Society

The Great Basin During the Holocene and Peopleing the Land Trade routes and exchange material based on obsidian and artifact geochemistry; tectonic basis for why rocks like volcanic obsidian occur where they do; geological foundation of the landscape and useful earth materials. A Country of Illusion A country of Illusion; John Wesley Powell's Green River Expedition of 1869; Prediction of catastrophe if the West was settled without major water redistribution; Owen's Valley- its Geological origin, landscape, climate history; arid landscape today, Indian poetry of the area, Building the hydraulic Empire for Los Angeles. Native American Attitudes About Earth and Environment

How the Scientific Method Works

Colonialism issues in California: Spanish, Mexico, Russian Professor Kent Lightfoot Guest Lecturer. The California Gold Rush of 1849

Chinese in the Gold Rush

Geronimo and the San Carlos Apaches of Arizona Pacification program of the US Military and the Reservation System, heroic field officers General George Crook and Lt. Charles Gatewood; Gen. Nelson Miles and the betrayal of Apache scouts. South Dakota Gold Rush and The Battle of the Little Big Horn of 1876 Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce and the Big Hole Battlefield of Montana. How the West Was Won and Lost:…