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PHYSICS OF THE EARTH (PHYS3070)

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Introductory remarks about the course and the class organisation

INTRODUCTION



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Lecture 1

FOUNDATIONS


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Lectures 2 and 3

THE SOLAR SYSTEM: A geophysical perspective

+guest speaker on geomagnetism: Dr. Ted Lilley

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Homework 1

Lecture 4

SEISMOLOGY: Some remarks about the history; Elasticity formulations


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Lecture 5

EQUATIONS OF MOTION: Compressional and shear waves


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Lecture 6

RAY THEORY: Travel time and epicentral distance


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Lecture 7

WIECHERT-HERGLOTZ INVERSION: Radial velocity structure of Earth


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Homework 2


A silly fortran program example



Lecture 8

MOHOROVICIC'S INVERSION: The discovery of the crust-mantle boundary


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Lecture 9

THE GEOPHYSICAL INVERSE THEORY introduction + Tutorial: Adams Williamson
equation for the determination of density as a function of Earth's radius


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Lecture 9: Inverse problems and seismic tomography by Dr. Malcolm Sambridge, RSES

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Lectures 10 and 11

SEISMIC SOURCES: Focal mechanisms, regional moment tensor inversion,
global seismicity, magnitude; The puzzle of the anomalous seismic radiation
of a volcanic event in Iceland


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Plotting circles fortran and GMT programs example


Lecture 12

"Things that Jules Verne didn't know on his journey to the centre of the Earth";
The Earth's deep interior, heterogeneity and anisotropy;
how well do we understand the inner core?



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Old notes to the students:


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