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Geology Popularization

As an Interdisciplinary Sciences (IS) major, I am not-infrequently derided by students with more narrowly focused majors as being something of a scientific voyeur whenever it comes to their specific disciplines. As I am primarily concerned with science literacy and the public understanding of science, I never fail to point out that I am at least better informed about a far greater array of disciplines than they are and am thus able to integrate findings from a diverse range of disciplines into my understanding of the cosmos and communicate that understanding to folks that might have trouble finding the roots of a quadratic equation. In this, my final semester, I am taking a 300-level Geology (GEOL) course, called “Search for Our Past.” The course consists of studying the geology of North America and how the landforms we encounter in our daily lives have been shaped in the past. As the main project for the course, we are looking at the various geologic provinces of the Un