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        • GEOL1001 Earth Materials
        • GEOL1002 From Petrology to Petrogenesis
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        • GEOL1003 History of Life
        • GEOL1004 Dynamic Earth
        • GEOL1006 Foundations of Physical Geoscience
        • GEOL1012 Surface Processes
        • GEOL1013 The Earth
        • GEOL1014 Geochemistry
        • GEOL2004 Chemistry of Earth Environments
        • GEOL2009 Surface Processes & Structures
        • GEOL2012 Metamorphism
        • GEOL2014 Global Geophysics
        • GEOL2016 Atmosphere, Weather & Climate
        • GEOL2026 Maps, Images and Structures
        • GEOL2027 Structural Geology and Tectonics
        • GEOL3030 Field Methods in Active Tectonics
        • GEOL3036 Biodiversity and Macroevolutionary Patterns
        • GEOL3038 Experimental Methods in Water-Rock Interaction
        • GEOL3039 Physics of Oceans, Ice Sheets and Climate
        • GEOL3040 Crustal Dynamics, Mountain Building & Basin Evolution
        • GEOL3042 Geological/Environmental Mapping Project
        • GEOLM002 Earthquake Seismology & Earthquake Hazards
        • GEOLM003 Earth & Planetary System Science
        • GEOLM006 Earth & Planetary Materials
        • GEOLM008 Physical Volcanology & Volcanic Hazard
        • GEOLM010 Tectonic Geomorphology
        • GEOLM012 Palaeoclimatology
        • GEOLM018 Palaeoceanography
        • GEOLM022 Hydrogeology and Groundwater Resources
        • GEOLM905 Independent MSci Project
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CONTENT

This course provides an introduction to petrology and will aim to provide an understanding of the compositional variation of the Earth and other terrestrial planets. Topics include:

• rocks, minerals & the rock cycle;
• nucleosynthesis in the early universe;
• meteorites & planetary differentiation;
• crystals and crystal growth;
• silicate melts;
• plutons & plutonic rocks;
• volcano architecture & eruptions;
• lavas;
• pyroclastic rocks;
• sandstones;
• ores & ore minerals;
• limestones & evaporites;
• metamorphic rocks.