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B006277 - GEOPHYSIC
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Academic Year 2011-12
Course year
Third year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Earth Sciences (DST)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
GEO/10 - SOLID EARTH GEOPHYSICS
Credits
9
Teaching Hours
72
Teaching Term
26/09/2011 ⇒ 22/12/2011
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The Shape and the Orbit of the Placet Earth, Plate Tectonics, General Seismology, The Gravimetry, The Earth’s Magnetism, Paleomagnetism, The Heat Flow.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Lowrie W., Fundamentals of Geophysics
Learning Objectives
To introduce students to the fundamentals of the Earth Dinamics responsible for the Plate Tectonics, Seismology, Magnetisms, Gravimetry and Heat Flow.
Prerequisites
Good knowledge of Mathematics, and Physics
Teaching Methods
Lectures
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None
Type of Assessment
Oral Exams
Course program
The earth’s shape, the Geoides, the earth Orbits, Sun’s radiation and Climate, The Milankovitch Theory, The Plate Tectonics, The mid-oceancic ridge, The subdaction areas, The Plates Rotation Poles, Velocity of the Plate Expansion, The Geochronology, The internal Heat flow, The Gravimetry, Gravimetric anomalies, the Airy correction, the Bouguer correction, Isostasy, Rheology, Stress and Strain, The Elasticity theory, Seismic waves, The internal structure of the Earth, The physics of magnetism, Rock Magnetism, The Geomagnetism, Magnetic Polarity, Oceanic magnetic anomalies, The Paleomognetism, The Magnetostratigraphy.