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Jim Watkins
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EPS 102: History and Evolution of Planet Earth

Lecture Topics & Notes

Exam 1 Material

• 1/17/06 Introduction
• 1/19/06 Geochronology (guest lecture; no online notes)
• 1/24/06 Nuclear concepts
• 1/26/06 PDF-Nuclear reactions & star formation (4.4 Mb)
• 1/31/06 Nucleosynthesis
• 2/02/06 Meteorites
• 2/07/06 PDF-Solar system formation concepts (3.3 Mb)
• 2/09/06 Condensation and accretion
• 2/14/06 Moon formation & planetary differentiation (no online notes)
• 2/16/06 PDF-Planetary atmosphere and surface temperature(5.0 Mb)

Exam 2 Material

• 2/21/06 Rock rheology - stress and strain (notes given in class)
• 2/23/06 Exam 1 (no online notes)
• 2/28/06 Mantle viscosity and post-glacial rebound (notes given in class)
• 3/02/06 Heat flow
• 3/07/06 Paleoclimate (guest lecture; no online notes)
• 3/09/06 Paleoclimate II (guest lecture; no online notes)
• 3/14/06 Seafloor spreading
• 3/16/06 Mantle melting I
• 3/21/06 Impact craters I (guest lecture; no online notes)
• 3/23/06 Mantle melting II
• 4/04/06 Impact craters II (guest lecture; no online notes)
• 4/06/06 Mantle plumes
• 4/11/06 Subduction zones I
• 4/13/06 Subduction zones II
• 4/18/06 Climate change through past 600 m.y.

Exam 3 Material

• 4/20/06 Exam 2 (no online notes)
• 4/25/06 Continents
• 4/27/06 (guest lecture; no online notes)
• 5/02/06 Intro to stable isotopes
• 5/04/06 Carbon isotope record
• 5/09/06 Oxygen isotope record