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Apr 16, 2024
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2021-2022 Hill Book (Class of 2025) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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PHY 326 - GeophysicsThree Credits
Not Offered 2018-2019
Students will study creeping flow mantle; physical chemical evidence of plate tectonics; planetary tomography; ridges subduction zones; formation continental crust; plumes hot spot volcanism; seafloor depth versus age, lithosphere in time; model of heat diffusion; pressure, gravity, sound speed composition of lithosphere, mantle and core; viscous flow, stress, strain, strain rate; equations governing fluid flow; viscosity of the mantle; plate tectonics heat flow, Earth heat engine; convection plate motion; and past Earth origins of plate tectonics.
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): PHY 221 .
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