Introduction to Geophysics

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  • Lectures: Wed 10-12, 018 [58]
  • Labs: Mon 14-15; 15-16, 234 [90]

    • Administration:

    You need to turn in all assignments in one week.

    The grade is based on the best 9 HWs (40%) and final exam (60%). You must pass the exam (>55) in order to pass the course.

    Exam is based on lectures + labs + reading material.

    Text books:


    Week
    		 Topic
    		 Reading
    		 Lab

    		Seismology


    1
    3/1     		Class Intro.
    Seismology: Intro, linear elasticity, wave equation
    		[7, ch 1]
    [9, 2.4.1 (pages 54-57)]
    		Lab 1, Math [Ben Dor]

    2
    10/1     		Ray theory and Amplitude effects

    		[7, ch 4.1 - 4.6]
    [7, ch 4.9 - 4.10]
    		Lab 2 [Ben Dor]

    3
    17/1     		Controlled seismology: reflection and refraction

    		[7, ch 7.1-7.2] & [9, 3.3 (pages 80-83)]

    		Lab 3 [Ben Dor]

    4
    24/1     		Earthquakes

    		[7, ch 9.7] & [9, 6.3.1-6.3.2 and 8.1]
    [8, 3.5.1-3.5.4 pages 148-155; ch 3.5.6-3.5.8 (pages 160-167)]

    Lab 4 [Ben Dor]

    		Heat flow


    5
    31/1    		 Heat flow, Fourier's law and continental geotherm

    		[5, ch 4.1-4.8; 1, ch 6]


    Lab 5 [Ben Dor]
    6
    7/2     		Oceanic heat flow and subsidence

    		[5, ch 4.15-4.16]


    Lab 6 [Fisch]

    		Gravity


    7
    14/2     		Gravity, the shape of the Earth and isostasy

    		[5, ch 5.1-5.9 & 4.23; 1 ch 5]

    		Lab 7 [Fisch]
    8
    21/2     		Flexure

    		[5, ch 3.1-3.11; 3.13-3.17]

    		Lab 8 [Fisch]

    		Paleomagnetism & Geomagnetism

    9
    28/2    		 Physical background and the geomagnetic field

    		 [3, ch 1-2,14]


    Lab 9 [Fisch]
    10
    6/3     		How rocks get and stay magnetized & pmag sampling

    		[3, ch 3, 6 & 7]

    		 Lab 10 [Fisch]

    11
    13/3     		Obtaining a pmag vector
    Statistics, VGP
    		[3, ch 9 & 11]

    		Lab 11 [Fisch]