12.570 Seminar in Geophysics: Thermal and Chemical Evolution of the Earth, Spring 2005
A visualization of mantle convection. (Courtesy of NASA-JPL.)
課程重點
This seminar course features lecture summaries and reading lists from MIT and Harvard guest lecturers.
課程描述
The main objective of this cross-disciplinary course is to understand the historical development and the current status of ideas and models, to present and question the constraints from the different research fields, and to investigate if and how the different views on mantle flow can be reconciled with the currently available data.
