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2015 / 2016Graduate Schools of Arts & SciencesCourses

Geodynamics I

GRS ES 660

Credits:
4
Offered:
either sem.
Undergraduate Prerequisites:
graduate standing and an introductory course in Earth Sciences and CAS PY 211 or 251 or equivalent, or consent of instructor.

(Meets with CAS ES 360.) Introduces basic physical principles of Earth's structure and dynamics. Driving mechanisms and plate motion; reflection, refraction seismology, magnetism, gravity and the Geoid, heat flow, tomography, mantle convection. Oceanic and continental lithosphere in active tectonic regions.

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