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• Class Schedule (pdf)

  Mantle composition

• Background on origin of the Earth (pdf)
• Background on mantle composition (pdf)
• Overheads for origin of earth (ppt)
• Overheads for mantle composition (ppt)

  1D Earth structure and resolution

• Background article on modes (pdf)
• Background on resolving power theory (pdf)
• Resolution paper (pdf)
• Overheads for 1D Earth structure (ppt)

  Thermodynamics and properties of convecting regions

• Basics of thermodynamics (pdf)
• Background on P and T in the deep Earth (pdf)
• Overheads for third lecture (ppt)

  Mineral physics

• Background on property behavior at high T and P(revised) (pdf)
• Overheads for third week(revised) (ppt)
• Review paper on elasticity (see sections 3 and 4) (pdf)
• Overheads on spin transition in the lower mantle (ppt)
• Background on phase transformations(revised) (pdf)
• Weidner 2000 paper on phase transformations (pdf)
• Overheads for phase transformations (ppt)
• Matas 2007 paper on mantle composition (pdf)
• Background on temperature and composition of the core (revised) (pdf)
• Overheads for core stuff including shock waves (revised) (ppt)
• Recent paper on melting of iron (pdf)

  Seismic tomography

• Background on seismic tomography (pdf)
• Overheads for seismic tomography (ppt)
• A modern global vs/vp study (pdf)

  Geochemical constraints

• Overheads for geochemistry (ppt)

  Rheology and stokes flow

• Daves overheads on rheology (pdf)
• Background on rheology (pdf)
• Background on Stokes flow (pdf)
• Guy's notes on buoyancy driven flow (pdf)
• Overheads on stokes flow (pdf)

  Thermal convection in the mantle

• background on thermal convection (updated) (pdf)
• overheads on basic thermal convection (key)
• background on compressible convection (pdf)
• Daves overheads on compressible convection (pdf)
• King et al, 2010 paper (pdf)
• overheads on thermochemical convection (key)
• McNamara et al, 2000 paper (pdf)
• Background on core evolution (pdf)
• Overheads on core evolution (ppt)
• Davies et al, 2015 (pdf)

  Review

• Review overheads (pptx)

  Homework

• Week 1 (due April 11'th) (pdf)
• Week 2 (due April 18'th) (pdf)
• Week 3 (due April 25'th) (pdf)
• Notes on EOS fitting for week 3 (pdf)
• Table of P/V data for week 3
• Week 4 (due May 2'nd) (pdf)
• Week 5 (due May 9'th) (pdf)
• Week 6 (due May 16'th) (pdf)
• Week 7 (due May 23'rd) (pdf)
• Week 8 (due May 30'th) (pdf)
• Week 9 (due June 10'th) (pdf)
• notes on surface wave inversion (pdf)

  Code

• tar file of code to do eos modelling
• tar file of code to do surface wave inversions