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（是／否／其他条件）：是
哪一学年度修课：106-2
ψ 授课教师 (若为多人合授请写开课教师，以方便收录)
林正洪（绪论与板块运动）
洪淑蕙（重力与地磁）
龚源成（地物数学与地震）
曾泰琳（地热与全球地体构造）
λ 开课系所与授课对象 (是否为必修或通识课 / 内容是否与某些背景相关)
地质系必修，建议修完微甲后尽快修毕
δ 课程大概内容
(1) Plate tectonics
Rotation of the plates on a sphere, type of plate boundaries, driving
forces
(2) Gravity and the geoid
The Earth’s mass and moment of inertia, inferring earth structure
from geoid and gravity data, isostasy and elastic plate flexture
(3) Geomagnetism
The Earth’s magnetic field, internal and external sources of geo-
magnetic field, electromagnetic induction and the Earth’s conducti-
vity structure, magnetic anomalies and the age of the seafloor
(4) Seismology and earth structure
Introduction to continuum mechanics and wave propagation in an elastic
earth, body waves, surface waves and normal modes, inferring earth
structure from seismic data, earthquake focal mechanism, fault-plane
solution
(5) Heat flow and the Earth’s thermal structure
Mechanisms of heat transfer, the Earth’s geotherm and thermal history
, convection in the earth’s interior, thermal structure of the
oceanic lithosphere