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Fundamentals of Solid Earth Science
The Course
Course Overview, Logistics & Policies
Acknowledgements
Syllabus & Readings
How To
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Field Trips
(A) Central Park & American Museum of Natural History
(B) Geophysical Field Survey
(C) GeoExchange Site Visit & Geology Field Trip
Problem Sets
(i) Plate Tectonics
(ii) Pressure, Plate Motion & Quake Magnitude
(iii) Minerals
(iv) Rocks
(v) Relative & Absolute Dating
(vi) Seismology & Isostasy
(vii) Climate
(viii) Human Interactions
Lectures
(1) Course Overview - Earth as a Natural System
(2) Stellar Formation & Nucleosynthesis
(3) Comparative Planetology
(4) Plate Tectonics - The Evidence
(5) Plate Tectonics - The Theory
(6) Phenomenology of Natural Disasters
(7) Minerals
(8) The Rock Cycle I - Introduction to Igneous Rocks
(9) The Rock Cycle II - Composition & Phase Diagrams
(10) The Rock Cycle III - Metamorphic & Sedimentary Rocks
(11) Radiogenic Isotopes & Absolute Dating
(12) Isostasy & Topography
(13) Stress, Strain & Deformation
(14) Constitutive Relations & Viscoelasticity
(15) Brittle Rheology & Fault Mechanics
(16) Flow Laws & Deformation Signatures
(17) Basics of Seismology
(18) Seismology & Radial Structure
(19) 3D Structure of the Earth
(20) Risks & Disasters
(21) Long Term Natural Climate System
(22) Human Interactions with Climate & Natural Resources
Tutorials
(a) Markdown
(b) Command Line
(c) Basics of Numpy
(d) Basics of Plotting
(e) Some Python Libraries
Reading Quizzes
(i) Stellar Formation & Comparative Planetology
(ii) Plate Tectonics
(iii) Minerals
(iv) Rocks
(v) Dating
(vi) Rheology & Deformation
(vii) Seismology
(viii) Climate & Natural Resources
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