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    Geology For Engineers: Planet Earth

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    Geology for Engineers is a course consisting of 30 lectures over Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10-11am in room M17. There are also 4 practical sessions on Tuesdays and a required field trip to Killiney. The course covers all material taught through a final exam with 5 questions out of 7. Recommended texts include Understanding Earth and The Solid Earth. The formation of the solar system and composition of its planets and asteroids are also discussed.

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    Geology for Engineers is a course consisting of 30 lectures over Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10-11am in room M17. There are also 4 practical sessions on Tuesdays and a required field trip to Killiney. The course covers all material taught through a final exam with 5 questions out of 7. Recommended texts include Understanding Earth and The Solid Earth. The formation of the solar system and composition of its planets and asteroids are also discussed.

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    Geology for Engineers is a course consisting of 30 lectures over Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10-11am in room M17. There are also 4 practical sessions on Tuesdays and a required field trip to Killiney. The course covers all material taught through a final exam with 5 questions out of 7. Recommended texts include Understanding Earth and The Solid Earth. The formation of the solar system and composition of its planets and asteroids are also discussed.

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    Geology For Engineers: Planet Earth

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    Geology for Engineers is a course consisting of 30 lectures over Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10-11am in room M17. There are also 4 practical sessions on Tuesdays and a required field trip to Killiney. The course covers all material taught through a final exam with 5 questions out of 7. Recommended texts include Understanding Earth and The Solid Earth. The formation of the solar system and composition of its planets and asteroids are also discussed.

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    Geology for Engineers

    Planet Earth
    Organisation
    30 Lectures: Monday, Tuesday,
    Wednesday 10-11am, M17
    4 Practicals: Tuesday afternoon, Main Lab
    Geology
    Field Trip: Killiney (date to be confirmed),
    full afternoon

    See course website for full details!


    Assessment
    3 hour exam
    All the material taught in the course,
    including practicals and field-trip, is
    examinable!!!
    Answer 5 out of 7 questions
    6 set by PB + QC, 1 by BM
    See past exam papers for examples!
    Course Notes
    Recommended Texts
    Course web-site
    Understanding Earth (2nd edition), Press &
    Siever
    The Solid Earth (2nd Edition), Fowler
    Introducing Groundwater (2nd Edition),
    Price
    Water wells and boreholes, Misstear, Bank
    & Clark
    Formation of the Solar System
    The stages of solar system formation start
    with a protostar embedded in a gas cloud,
    then to an early star with a circumstellar
    disk, to a star surrounded by small
    "planetesimals" that are starting to clump
    together to a solar system like ours today.
    Formation of the Solar System
    protostar circumstellar disk

    planetesimals home

    www.jwst.nasa.gov/birth.html Credit: Shu et al. 1987


    Composition of the Solar System
    Jovian planets: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus,
    Neptune
    Large masses & low densities.
    Mainly composed of gaseous H & He and
    frozen C-H-N volatiles.
    Interiors may be similar to that of Earth
    Composition of the Solar System
    The inner, terrestrial planets: Small
    masses & high densities.
    Mercury: No atmosphere. Similar in
    composition to Earth.
    Venus: Dense atmosphere of CO2 & N.
    Similar in composition to Earth.
    Earth: More about us later.
    Mars: Polar ice caps in winter water?
    Uniform chemical composition i.e. no iron
    core and silicate mantle as in Earth.
    The Asteroids

    www.aerospaceweb.org/
    Composition of the Solar System
    The asteroids: Located in a belt between
    the terrestrial and Jovian planets.
    Meteorites: Most are probably fragments
    from the asteroid belt of our solar system.
    Siderites, or irons (98% metal)
    Siderolites, or stony irons (50% metal, 50%
    silicate)
    Aerolite, or stones (silicate > metal)

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