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Experimental Methods Under Deep Earth Conditions - GEOS792

This unit will provide students with knowledge of the foundations of high-pressure experimental petrology. You will learn the relative advantages and disadvantages of various high-pressure apparatus, methods of data collection and analysis and how to interpret these data in terms of structures and processes inside the Earth. The course will comprise a series of lectures presenting the base material interleaved with experimental sessions aimed at developing laboratory skills. Students will have the opportunity to engage in reading, writing and presentation exercises aimed at developing communication skills and/or data manipulation exercises aimed at developing numerate and computational skills. The student will gain valuable laboratory and data analysis skills that will enable them to operate in a laboratory environment or to use laboratory data in the interpretation of field or geophysical observations.

Credit Points: 4
When Offered:

S1 Day - Session 1, North Ryde, Day

S2 Day - Session 2, North Ryde, Day

Staff Contact(s): Simon Clark
Prerequisites:

Admission to MRes Prerequisite Information

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Assessed As: Graded
Offered By:

Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Faculty of Science and Engineering

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