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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • 12.753 (Spring 2006) 
  • Course Title:
  • Geodynamics Seminar 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Karen Bice
    Prof. Sarah Das
    Prof. Mark Behn

     
  • Course Introduction:
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  • 12.753 Geodynamics Seminar



    Spring 2006




    Course Highlights


    This course features an extensive geodynamical field trip guide to Iceland given in related resources section, as well an image gallery of the class field trip there.


    Course Description


    In this year's Geodynamics Seminar, we will explore the depth and breadth of scientific research related to Earth's present and past ice-sheets, glaciers and sea-ice, as well as extraterrestrial planetary ice.

    Invited speakers have been chosen from experts in the current frontiers in ice-related research, including planetary ice, climate records from polar and tropical ice cores, the Snowball Earth, subglacial volcanoes, ice rheology, ice sheet modeling, ice microkinetics, glacial erosion and tectonics, subglacial life and polar remote sensing.

    A field trip to Iceland in Summer 2006 will allow us to view some of the island's ice caps and glacial geology, the exposed mid Atlantic Ridge and evidence of ice-volcano interactions.



    Special Features


     

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