Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Recommended Prerequisites: MATH 3150 and PHYCS 2220.
Description
Heat and fluid transport within the context of geological processes. Theory, material properties, and modeling. Applications include sea-floor spreading with hydrothermal circulation, plate subduction and magnetic arcs, magma chambers, debris and lava flows, contact and regional metamorphism, faulting, sediment transport, and sedimentary basin evolution. Meets with GEO 6310, 7310.