Origin of Earth & Early Earth
GEL 1, University of California, Davis (Guest Lecture)
Guest lecture given as a TA for GEL 1: The Earth at UC Davis, Spring 2025. Taught by Prof. Gregory Funston.
Goals of this topic:#
- To locate Earth’s place in the universe
- To address the basic question: how do planets like Earth form?
- To illustrate how Earth’s core, mantle and crust formed
- To describe the extreme conditions of the Earth during its first few hundred million years