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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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Archived course materials from Fall 2025.

Continent and ocean basin evolution by spreading of the sea floor (Dietz 1961)

History of Ocean Basins (Hess 1962)

Magnetic anomalies over oceanic ridges (Vine and Matthews 1963)

By Blake Dyer

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