The Shape and the Orbit of the Placet Earth, Plate Tectonics, General Seismology, The Gravimetry, The Earth’s Magnetism, Paleomagnetism, The Heat Flow.
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
Type of Assessment
Oral exam
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.