Lecture Topics
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- Pangaea plate history (Windley text)
- Pangaea climate/biodiversity/extinctions (Windley text)
- Origin of granites (Winter text)
- Origin of basalt (Winter text)
- Trace elements (Rollinson text
- Spider diagram (Rollinson text
- Radiometric systems (Faure text)
- Construction of Geologic time scale
- Crustal types (Condie, Chap.2)
- Makeup of the crust (Condie, Chap.2)
- Geophysics of crust (Condie, Chap. 2)
- Ophiolites (Condie, 3; cf Windley)
- Hotspots and mantle plumes (Condie, 3)
- Island arcs (Condie, 3)
- Earth's mantle (Condie 4)
- Crustal evolution (Condie, 8)
- Himalayas 1 (Windley, 9)
- Himalayas 2 (Windley 9)
- European Alps (Windley Chap. 8)
- The Andes (Windley)
- Pangaea plate history (Windley text)
- Pangaea climate/biodiversity/extinctions (Windley text)
- Origin of granites (Winter text)
- Origin of basalt (Winter text)
- Trace elements (Rollinson text
- Spider diagram (Rollinson text
- Radiometric systems (Faure text)
- Construction of Geologic time scale
- Crustal types (Condie, Chap.2)
- Makeup of the crust (Condie, Chap.2)
- Geophysics of crust (Condie, Chap. 2)
- Ophiolites (Condie, 3; cf Windley)
- Hotspots and mantle plumes (Condie, 3)
- Island arcs (Condie, 3)
- Earth's mantle (Condie 4)
- Crustal evolution (Condie, 8)
- Himalayas 1 (Windley, 9)
- Himalayas 2 (Windley 9)
- European Alps (Windley Chap. 8)
- The Andes (Windley)