To introduce students to the fundamentals of the Earth Dinamics, 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 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, Sismometry, Propagation of the Elastic Waves, Focal Mechanisms, Intensity, Magnitude and Seismic Moment. Fault Rupture. The physics of magnetism, Rock Magnetism, The Geomagnetism, Magnetic Polarity, Oceanic magnetic anomalies, The Paleomognetism, The Magnetostratigraphy.