EASC 209 — Earth’s Materials and Resources
Earth Science · University of Ghana
The course is made up of two parts. The first part concerns Earth's materials, including the atom, elements, compounds and minerals, crystallinity, the importance of silicate minerals, physical properties of minerals, and formation, identification and description of minerals and rocks. Earth Materials is a laboratory based, however, instead of dedicating a specific day of the week to laboratory work, the lecture and laboratory elements will be integrated. Everyday life and the fabric of modern civilization depend on using the Earth‘s physical resources: water to drink; fuel to burn; rocks and minerals to build roads and houses; metals for machinery, electronics, and communications. The second part of the course is about the occurrence, availability, exploitation and sustainability of these essential resources. It also consider their origins, how to find and extract them, and the environmental consequences of exploitation. The course may include several one-day long trips to the field to reinforce geological and environmental concepts learned in class and laboratory.
- Credits
- 2
- Level
- Level 200
- Semester
- Semester One
Other courses on this programme
- EASC 210 — Geological Field Methods I
- EASC 211 — Natural Hazards and Disasters
- EASC 213 — Geological Structures
- EASC 214 — Principles of Geochemistry
- EASC 215 — Stratigraphy and Sedimentation
- EASC 216 — Fundamentals of Geophysics
- EASC 217 — Optical Mineralogy
- EASC 218 — Introduction to Palaeontology
- EASC 219 — Practical Crystallography
- EASC 222 — Petrography
- EASC 280 — Internship in Earth Science I
- EASC 101 — Physical Geology
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Start freeCourse details from University of Ghana Volume 3 Handbook for the Bachelor's Degree: Course Descriptions for Programmes in the Sciences (2017).