Nov 18, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

ERTH 465 - Physical and Chemical Oceanography


(3 units)

Prerequisites: CHEM 111A  or CHEM 112A.  

Recommended: PHYS 100A  or PHYS 151.  
Physics and chemistry of the oceans; carbon cycle; nutrients; minor and trace elements in sea water; water masses and currents; physical concepts of ocean circulation.

Letter grade only (A-F). (Lecture 3 hrs.) Not open for credit to students with prior credit in GEOL 465.