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Short course program: Earth and planetary materials and dynamics
Morgan lecture room, lower CEED level, ZEB-building, April 20-25, 2015
Additional people are welcome to attend some or all the course sessions
Time schedule
M: Morning, 09-12 (three hours, with short breaks)
A: Afternoon, 13-18 (with breaks)
Colour code, instructors:
Reidar G. Trønnes, CEED and NHM, Univ. Oslo
Stephanie C. Werner, CEED, Univ. Oslo
Valerie Maupin, Geosciences, Univ. Oslo
Bernhard Steinberger, GFZ Potsdam / CEED, Oslo
Red: 15 min student presentations
Monday, April 20
M: (0900-0915) Short introduction of CEED and the course participants
SCW: Introduction to comparative planetology
SCW: Star evolution and nucleosynthesis
SCW: Structure, composition and bombardment history of the solar system
A: Nikitha Susan Saji (STARPLAN, Copenhagen): Isotopic constraints on nucleosynthesis, Solar system composition and accretion
Elishevah van Kooten (STARPLAN, Copenhagen): Accretion of Earth and the terrestrial planets
Anthony Osei Tutu (GFZ, Potsdam): Moon formation and differentiation
Planetary accretion and core segregation: processes and chronology
First-order constraints on Earth structure: mineralogy, density, bulk and shear moduli
Tuesday, April 21
M: VM: Introduction to deep Earth seismology: 3 hours
A: Antoine Jacquey (GFZ, Potsdam): Mantle geodynamics and plate tectonics
Planetary heat flow and thermodynamics: convection and thermal boundary layers
Mineral physics: p-V-T equations-of-state and experimental techniques
Subsolidus mineralogy of peridotitic and basaltic compositions at 3-136 GPa (2 hours)
Wednesday, April 22
M: BS: Dynamic topography
BS: Geodynamic relations between subduction, plume generation, LLSVPs and true polar wander
BS: Reference frames for plate motion and true polar wander
A: BS: Relation between geoid, topography, volcanism and mantle dynamics, Earth and planets
Tobias Rolf (CEED, Oslo): Linking surface observations and internal dynamics through mantle convection modelling of Earth and Venus
Planetary melting and crust formation – fundamental phase relations
Christian Sætre (Geosci., Oslo): The origin of the oceanic and continental lithosphere
Thursday, April 23
M: Melting relations of peridotitic to basaltic compositions at 3-136 GPa
Marzena A. Baron (CEED, Oslo): Experimental studies on melting relations in the systems MgO-SiO2 and CaO-MgO-SiO2 at lower mantle
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Mantle differentiation during magma ocean crystallization and deep Hadean melting
Origin and composition of LLSVPs and ULVZs in the lowermost mantle
A: SCW: Volcanism and tectonics on the terrestrial planets
(Beary) Zhiyong Xiao (CEED, Oslo): Crater count, Secondary craters, and crater equilibrium
Stefan Andreas Linsler (Hannover): New results from the MESSENGER mission to Mercury
Nils C. Prieur (CEED, Oslo): New results from the Dawn mission to Vesta
Vesta - Earth: Upper mantle melting and crustal differentiation at low and high pressures
Friday, April 24
M: Chris E. Mohn (CEED, Oslo): Computational mineral physics: Quantum chemistry and Density Functional Theory
Marzena A. Baron (CEED, Oslo): Computational mineral physics: molecular dynamics simulations
Compositional models for the Earth - Bulk silicate (crust + mantle) and core
Niklas Stausberg (Geosci., Aarhus): Redox conditions and segregation of the Earth's core
A: Core-mantle redox equilibrium (and non-equilibrium) in terrestrial planets
Anouk M. Borst (Geosci., Copenhagen): Kimberlites, carbonatites and diamonds in view of mantle redox conditions
Fe-spin state in the lowermost mantle, conductive and radiative heat flow
Terrestrial planetary cores: phase relations and properties of Fe-dominated metal alloys
Geochemical constraints on depleted and enriched mantle reservoirs: Earth, Moon and Mars
Saturday, April 25
M: Dynamics of recycling and homogenisation of terrestrial planets
Peter Klitzke (GFZ, Potsdam): Thermal, tectonic and melting evolution of the Earth from the Hadean to the Phanerozoic
Temporal evolution of the Earth's mantle
Graduate student course, Univ. of Oslo, GEO 9800 / GEO 5800
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Composition and structure of the solar system
Accretion, core segregation and dynamic evolution
of the terrestrial planets and asteroids
Seismological constraints on Earth’s structure
Geochemical models of planetary formation and evolution
Pressure-induced modification of mineral structures
High-pressure experimental methods
Phase relations of silicates, oxides, peridotite and basalt
under mantle conditions
Phase relations of Fe-Ni-dominated alloys under core conditions
Mineral physics and seismic velocity models
Seismic tomography of the Earth’s mantle
The geodynamo and core-mantle interaction
Comparative planetology - the roles of plume and plate tectonics
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Reidar G. Trønnes, Stephanie C. Werner, Valerie Maupin,
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