A Brief History of the Earth

Harvard FAS

This is an introduction to Earth and planetary science for EPS concentrators and an overview, for those outside the field, of the critical events and processes that have shaped the Earth’s evolution and its place in the Solar System. The course is designed to highlight the processes, from the scale of microbes to that of tectonic plates, that drive the Earth’s response to internal and external perturbations, and we will explore both the timescale of those perturbations and the…