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GEOL 415: Earth's Origin and Early Evolution Report a Broken Link

Unit 1

American Dialect Society. (2007, January 5). "Plutoed" voted 2006 word of the year. https://americandialect.org/plutoed_voted_2006_word_of_the_year/
Hughes, D. W. (2006). The mean density of the Earth. Journal of The British Astronomical Association, 116(1), 21-24. adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2006JBAA..116...21H

Unit 2

Faure, G., & Mensing, T. M. (2004). Isotopes: Principles and applications (3rd ed.). John Wiley & Sons.
Nisbet, E. G. (1987). The young Earth: An introduction to Archean geology. Allen & Unwin.
Cowan, J. J., & Thielemann, F. K. (2004). R-Process nucleosynthesis in supernovae. Physics Today, 57(10), 47-53. https://pages.astro.umd.edu/~dphamil/ASTR630/handouts/R-Process.pdf

Unit 3

Tolstikhin, I. N., & Kramers, J. D. (2008). The evolution of matter from the big bang to the present day. Cambridge University Press.
Nittler, L. R. (2004). Nuclear fossils in stardust. Science, 303(5658), 636-637. https://www.jstor.org/stable/3836171

Unit 4

Exoplanet.eu. (n.d.). Catalogue of exoplanets (Version 2.28.1). Retrieved November 21, 2025, from https://exoplanet.eu/catalog/

Unit 5

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Assignments

Meyer, B. S., & Zinner, E. (2006). Table 1: Principal burning stages in hydrostatic stellar evolution. In D.S. Lauretta & H. Y. McSween (Eds.), Meteorites and the early solar system II. University of Arizona Press.
Greenwood, R. C., Franchi, I. A., Jambon, A., Barrat, J. A., & Burbine, T. H. (2006). Oxygen isotope variation in stony-iron meteorites. Science, 313(5794), 1763-1765. https://www.jstor.org/stable/20031356
Raymond, S. N. (2024). The solar system: Structural overview, origins and evolution. Earth and Planetary Astrophysics. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.14982