Leads students through quantitative spatial analysis of environmental and paleoclimatic problems. Each student will develop a project from start to finish, with emphasis on raster GIS for building large empirical databases that bear on process and variability.
Provides an overview of the relevant space environment and process, the types of instruments flown on recent mission, and the science background of the measurement principles. Same as ASTR 6050 and ASEN 6050.
Covers the exploration and production aspects of petroleum submarine fans and turbidite systems. Requisites: Requires prerequisite course of GEOL 6330 (minimum grade B).
Covers interpretation of depositional and diagenetic history of sedimentary rocks as determined from thin-section studies. Department enforced requisite, restricted to graduate students only. Department enforced prereqs., GEOL 3010 and GEOL 3020 and GEOL 3430.
Develops skills in the stratigraphic interpretation of seismic reflection data, recognition of sequence stratigraphy in well logs and outcrop, and their applications to basin analysis in petroleum exploration. Department enforced requisite, restricted to graduate students only. Department enforced prereqs., introductory undergraduate physics and sedimentology/stratigraphy.
Offered alternate years. Mechanics of deformable materials, with applications to earthquake processes. Introduces seismic wave theory. Inversion of seismic data for the structure, composition, and state of the interior of Earth. Same as ASTR 6610 and PHYS 6610.
Offered alternate years. Space and surface geodetic techniques, as well as potential theory, are covered. Other topics are definition and geophysical interpretation of the geoid and of surface gravity anomalies; isostasy; post-glacial rebound; tides and the rotation of the Earth. Same as ASTR 6620 and PHYS 6620. Requisites: Restricted to graduate students only.
Offered alternate years. The solar system: theories of its origin, meteorites. Distribution of radioactive materials; age dating. Heat flow through continents and the ocean floor; internal temperature distribution in Earth; mantle convection. Origin of the oceans and atmosphere. Same as ASTR 6630 and PHYS 6630.
Principles of geophysical inverse theory as applied to problems in the Earth sciences, including topography, Earth structure, and earthquake locations. Department enforced prereqs., a course in calculus and a course in computer programming (any language). Same as PHYS 6670.
All doctoral students must register for not fewer than 30 hours of dissertation credit as part of the requirements for the degree. For a detailed discussion of doctoral dissertation credit, refer to the Graduate School section.
