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- The Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences offers programs of study and research in the basic Earth sciences; in geology, the science of the solid Earth, in geochemistry, devoted to understanding the chemistry of the solid Earth and natural waters; in hydrogeology, the study of the role of groundwater in geologic processes and environmental hydrology; in geophysics, concerned with a quantitative description of physical processes in the Earth and planetary sciences; in physical oceanography, the study of ocean currents and waves, and their role in climate; in atmospheric sciences, particularly the dynamics of atmospheric circulation both on earth and other outer planets and their satellites; and in paleoecology and evolutionary biology, the study of the relationships between organisms and their environment today and in the geologic past.
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