Geophysics 5713 - Solid
Earth Geophysics - Course Outline
I. Solar System
II. Gravity, Figure of Earth
III. Earth's Magnetism
IV. Seismicity
V. Earthquake Seismology and Earth's
Interior
-
Elastic waves
- Snell's law; the ray parameter
- Surface waves, body waves, free
oscillations
- Earthquake phases
- Travel-time tables, inversion, velocity
structures
- Hypocenter determination
- Velocity structure of the Earth
VI. Earth Models
- Pressure, temperature, density
- Adams-Williamson Equation
- Murnaghan Equation
- Static determination, Shock-wave
Copyright 2004, Judson L. Ahern