Vertiefte Einführung in die Genese, Diagenese und Probleme chemischer Sedimente. Schwerpunkt: Bedeutung der chemischen Sedimente als Indikatoren für Umweltveränderungen in geologischen Zeiträumen und für die Wechselwirkung zwischen organischen und anorganischen Prozessen.

Provides a basic introduction into Earth Sciences, emphasizing different rock-types and the geological rock-cycle, as well as introduction into geophysics, plate tectonics and planetology.

Provides a basic introduction into Earth Sciences, emphasizing different rock-types and the geological rock-cycle, as well as introduction into geophysics and plate tectonic theory.

Processes on Earth surface: Climate, water cycle, weathering and erosion, transport, sedimentation. Rock deformation. Geochronology, stratigraphy and Earth history.

Microorganisms have helped to shape the Earth over the past 4 billion years making it habitable for higher forms of life. Recent advances in our understanding of how microbial life impacts the Earth have led to a newly evolving field of geomicrobiology and associated biogeochemistry, which links the biosphere with the geosphere.

Weeky seminar series on current topics in sedimentology and paleoceanography presented by invited speakers from national and international institutes, as well as from the ETH Zürich.