Seminar in Geophysics: Thermal and Chemical Evolution of the Earth
As taught in: Spring 2005
A visualization of mantle convection. (Courtesy of NASA-JPL.)
Instructors:
Prof. Robert Van Der Hilst
MIT Course Number:
12.570
Level:
Graduate
Course Features
Course Description
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.
