Course content
This intensive PhD course addresses topics like material recycling across the geospheres and how mantle dynamics, volcanism, plate tectonics influences long-term, global environmental and climatic changes.
After completing this course, you will have obtained fundamental knowledge of
- formation and evolution of hydrosphere and atmosphere in relation to solid Earth.
- boundary and interphase definitions (e.g., of the lithosphere-asthenosphere boundary) based on geophysical and mineralogical constraints.
- how the Wilson cycle – the dispersion and formation of supercontinents – is manifested on Earth.
- how various tectonic processes on continents and oceans (linked to sea-floor spreading, sedimentation and erosion, subduction, and volcanism) influence variations of global geochemical cycles.
- links between mantle convection, dynamic topography and anomalous subsidence and uplift on continents and Oceans.
- evolution of oceanic basins and long-term sea-level, oceanographic and climate variations.
- large igneous provinces and hydrothermal vents
- geothermal-hybrid systems and sedimentary volcanism
- Extraplanetary sedimentary volcanism
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Time and place
The course is taught hybrid (both in-person at UiO / CEED and online through Zoom) from 02 - 06 May 2022.
Lecturers
Carmen Gaina, former director of CEED at University of Oslo, and Adriano Mazzini, researcher at CEED, are the course responsible for GEO-DEEP9400. Lectures will be delivered by:
- Dr. Adriano Mazzini (CEED)
- Prof. Carmen Gaina (QUT, CEED)
- Prof. Clint Conrad (CEED)
- Prof. Grigorii G. Akhmanov (MSU, Russia)
- Dr. Hans Jorgen Kjol (GEO)
- Prof. Henrik Svensen (CEED)
- Prof Karen Mair (GEO)
- Prof. Karin Andreassen (CAGE, UiT)
- Prof. Matteo Lupi (UNIGE, Switzerland)
- Dr. Morgan Jones (CEED)
- Dr. Olivier Galland (PGP)
- Dr. Petr Brož, (CAS, Czech Republic)
- Prof. Reidar Tronnes (CEED)
- Prof. Sverre Planke (CEED)
- Prof. Valerie Maupin (CEED)
- Dr. Valentina Magni (CEED)
Prior to the course
Prior to the course week, the students will receive course material and prepare for an obligatory presentation on a given topic. Course literature will be pre-selected and accessible to course participants in due time prior to the course.
Examination
- Short presentation on a given topic
- Home examination
Home examination occurs after the course week.
Application
Contact
For more information about the course please contact: post-deep@geo.uio.no