Develop a greater appreciation for how the air, water, land, and life formed and have interacted over the last 4.5 billion years.
Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes
Our Earth: Its Climate, History, and Processes
Instructors: Prof. David M. Schultz
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AJ
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Reviewed on Aug 21, 2019
an excellent course, it size me at perfeccion becouse i am an bioclimatic architect and i need to know how the climate work
RK
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Reviewed on Jan 20, 2022
My BA 45 years ago is major in Geography and Geology. I am very happy to re-visit many of the topics with the new discoveries and theories and presentation of them in modern technology.
CE
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Reviewed on Apr 26, 2020
This is very interesting and a lot of great information to help improve and balance out how we understand our earth and it's history.
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