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  • EOS240: Geochemistry
    • Course outline
    • Lecture slides
      • Lecture 1: Course introduction
      • Lecture 2: Making the elements
      • Lecture 3: Equilibrium Conditions
      • Lecture 4: Condensation
      • Lecture 5+6: Making the Earth
      • Lecture 7: Part 1 Trace elements
      • Lecture 7: Part 2 Batch and fractional crystallization
      • Lecture 8: Fractional Crystallization and Bulk Partition Coefficients
      • Lecture 9: Partial melting and explaining the crust
      • Lecture 10: Mid-term Review
      • Lecture 11: Radioactive Decay
      • Lecture 12: Model ages
      • Lecture 13: The Atmosphere
      • Lecture 14: The Long Term Carbon Cycle
      • Lecture 15: Past Climate
      • Lecture 16: Stable isotopes
      • Lecture 17: CO2 in seawater
      • Lecture 18: CO2 in seawater
      • Lecture 19: Alkalinity and DIC
      • Lecture 20: Alkalinity
      • Lecture 21: Carbonate saturation
    • Lab assignments
      • Lab 1: Partial Melting of Olivine
      • Lab 2: Major, minor, and trace elements in Earth’s mantle
      • Lab 3: Trace element partitioning during crystallization
      • Lab 4: Chemical differentiation of Earth
      • Lab 5: Sm-Nd Decay
      • Lab 6: The long term carbon cycle
      • Lab 7: Measuring stable isotopes
      • Lab 8: Cenozoic Climate
  • EOS408: Marine Geology
    • Course outline
    • Lecture slides
      • Lecture 1: Course introduction
      • Lecture 2: Sea-floor depth, age, and heat flow
      • Lecture 3: Sea-floor depth, age, and heat flow
      • Lecture 4: Sea-floor depth, age, and heat flow
      • Lecture 5: Hot spots and seamounts
      • Lecture 6: Hot spots, seamounts, and ridges
      • Lecture 7: Hot spots, seamounts, and ridges
      • Lecture 8: Hot spots, seamounts, and ridges and Sea level
      • Lecture 9: Coastal Activity Wrap-up
      • Lecture 10: Sea level
    • Readings
  • EOS423: Advanced Sedimentology and Stratigraphy
    • Course outline
    • Lecture slides
      • Lecture 1: Course introduction
      • Lecture 2: Simplifying Surface Transport
      • Lecture 3: Discussion of Kenyon and Turcotte (1985)
      • Lectures 4-5: Modeling bulk transport
      • Lecture 6: Stratigraphic Sequences
      • Lecture 7: Stratigraphic sequences group activity
      • Lecture 8: Stratigraphic time part I
      • Lecture 9: Stratigraphic time part II
      • Lecture 10: Cycles
      • Lecture 11: Discussion of Hinnov and Goldhammer (1991)
      • Lecture 12: Age models
      • Lecture 13: Age models part 2
      • Lecture 14: Carbonates and Poisson-Gamma Age models
    • Lab assignments
      • Lab 1.1: Sedimentary Transport
      • Lab 1.2: Sedimentary Transport (Numerical Model)
      • Lab 1.3: Sedimentary Transport (Applying the Numerical Model)
      • Lab 2.1: Practice with Fourier Analysis
      • Lab 2.2: Using Fourier Analysis to interpret Modeled Basins
      • Lab 3.1: Modeling carbonates and their ages
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Lecture 11: Radioactive Decay

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