Instructors: | B. Buffett (U. Chicago), A. Dziewonski (Harvard), D. DePaolo (UC Berkeley), S. Hart (WHOI), A. Kavner (UCLA), C. Lithgow-Bertelloni (U. Michigan), G. Masters (UCSD), B. Romanowicz(UC Berkeley), L. Stixrude (U. Michigan) |
Schedule |
Mornings, 9am-12 noon: Two 60mn lectures, 10mn breaks |
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Lunch (students and instructors): 12 noon to 2pm - UCSB Dining Hall |
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Afternoons, 1.30-3:15pm 3rd lecture or discussion session; 3:15-3:30pm break;3:30-5pm: tutorial |
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Dinner (students) served from 6-7.30pm in UCSB Dining Hall |
revised programs |
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Day 1 (Monday, July 12) |
Seismology |
Geophysical Inverse Problems: Introduction Dziewonski |
Geochemistry |
Overview: the geochemist's Earth (reservoirs, budgets and processes) - DePaolo |
Mineral Physics: |
Earth forming minerals; structure and composition - Stixrude |
Tutorial in Seismology(Dziewonski, Nettles) |
Day 2 (Tuesday, July 13) |
Geodynamics: |
Composition and structure of the Earth's mantle
- Buffett |
Geochemistry: |
Background A - Initial condition, the early Earth, Moon, meteorites, extinct radioactivities, terrestrial reservoirs and lithologies - Hart |
Geochemistry: |
Background B - The tools; systematic behavior of trace elements and radiogenic isotope tracer systems - Hart |
Tutorial in Mineral Physics (Stixrude) |
Day 3 (Wednesday, July 14) |
Geodynamics: |
Governing equations and approximate solutions - Buffett |
Mineral Physics: |
Thermodynamics Stixrude |
Seismology: |
Wave equation with consideration of anisotropy and attenuation - Dziewonski |
Tutorial in Geochemistry (Hart/DePaolo) |
Day 4 (Thursday, July 15) |
Mineral Physics: |
Earth Mineralogy Kavner
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Geochemistry: |
Physics of melting and melt migration; trace elements and U-series models - DePaolo |
Geodynamics: |
Numerical, analytical and laboratory models - Lithgow-Bertelloni |
Tutorial in Geodynamics (Buffett) |
Day 5 (Friday, July 16) |
Seismology: |
Body wave travel times (transmitted, reflected, differential) - Masters
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Mineral Physics: |
Elasticity - Kavner |
Geodynamics: |
Plates, subduction
Lithgow-Bertelloni |
Tutorial in Seismology(Masters,Nettles,Reif) |
Day 6 (Saturday, July 17) |
Mineral Physics: |
Lattice dynamics - Stixruder
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Seismology: |
Surface waves: excitation, measurements of dispersion and attenuation Dziewonski |
Geodynamics: |
Plumes, hotspots, transition zone and core-mantle boundary - Lithgow-Bertelloni/Buffett |
Day 7 (Sunday, July 18) |
Free |
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Day 8 (Monday, July 19) |
Seismology: |
Free oscillations: excitation, measurement of center frequencies and attenuation; differential kernels - Masters |
Geochemistry:: |
Stable isotopes and rare gases; tracers of the shallow Earth and tracers of the deep Earth - Hart |
Discussion followed by tutorial in Geochemistry (Hart) |
Day 9 (Tuesday, July 20) |
Mineral Physics: |
Ab initio calculations of material properties Stixrude
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Geodynamics: |
Recap of geological observations as constraints, including geomag. Lithgow-Bertelloni
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Geochemistry: |
Geochemical evolution and fingerprinting of terrestrial reservoirs - DePaolo |
Tutorial in Geodynamics |
Day 10 (Wednesday, July 21) |
Geochemistry: |
Geochemical evolution and fingerprinting of terrestrial reservoirs (continued) - Hart
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Seismology: |
Free oscillations: Mode splitting - Masters |
Tutorial in Mineral Physics |
Day 11 (Thursday, July 22) |
Seismology: |
Wave propagation in three dimensional media
Romanowicz |
Geodynamics: |
Core formation and composition - Buffett |
Mineral Physics: |
Transport properties and anelasticitys Kavner |
Discussion or tutorial (tbd) |
Day 12 (Friday, July 23) |
Seismology: |
Current state of knowledge of the structure of the Earth's interior Masters and Dziewonski |
Geodynamics: |
Thermal and dynamical evolution of the earth and planets Buffett |
Discussion and Tutorial in geodynamics |
Day 13 (Saturday, July 24) |
Geochemistry: |
Terrestrial budgets and evolution modeling - DePaolo
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Mineral Physics: |
Building terrestrial planets Kavner/Stixrude |
Summary, Panel Discussion |
Day 14 (Sunday, July 25) |
Free |
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Afternoon Tutorials and Exercises |
Geochemistry |
Nuts and Bolts: |
chemistry, mass specs, standards and constants, normalization, precision - Hart
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Navigating GERM: |
finding and evaluating geochemical reference data - Hart and DePaolo |
GEOROC and PETDB - Hart |
The world of MORB and OIB data manipulation |
Melts: |
Understanding differentiation with the MELTS program |
Crust-Mantle Box models: |
Integrating geochemical reservoir models with tomographic and geodynamic constraints - DePaolo |
melting and melt migration: |
Porous flow and focused flow models, U-series constraints, spidergram inversions - DePaolo and Hart |
Geodynamics |
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Stability analysis
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b) |
Parametrized Convection /td>
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c1) |
Introduction to CitCom -cooling model |
c2) |
CitCom - cont'd -high Rayleigh numbers |
c3) |
More idealized models of subduction |
d) |
Integrating models and observations: geoid, heat flow, tomography and chemical geodynamics |
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Off line analysis of convection models (e.g.
radial correlation functions etc..) |
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extention of parametrized model from b) for application to terrestrial planets with cores and radioactivity |
Mineral Physics |
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Constructing phase diagrams, compositional models of regions of earth, phase relations with depth
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b) |
Equations of state models, rheological flow laws, activated processes, applications to radial and lateral velocity variations/td>
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c) |
Testing and comparing results from different experiments |
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Normal mode measurements; center frequencies, mode splitting, attenuation |
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Comparison of different wave propagation approximations |
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Examples of 1-D and 3-D models; reasons for discrepancies |
Seismology |
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Simple examples of inverse problems with illustration of the effect of matrix conditioning, etc.
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b) |
Travel time measurememts: data from bulletins (ISC), waveform measurements at long- and short-periods, differential travel times, effect of attenuation |
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Measurement of dispersion and attenuation: construction of 2-D maps of phase and group velocities |
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Normal mode measurements; center frequencies, mode splitting, attenuation |
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Comparison of different wave propagation approximations |
f) |
Examples of 1-D and 3-D models; reasons for discrepancies |
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