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Astronomy
Description: This course is a beginning graduate course in the surface geology of planetary bodies in the inner and outer Solar System. It serves as an elective in the Ph.D. program in Astronomy and Planetary Science and is co-convened with AST 460, an advanced undergraduate elective. Course objectives are: 1) to learn to recognize the basic morphology created by various geologic processes, and 2) understand the associated physics that created the morphology. Students will gain a qualitative and quantitative understanding of common planetary landforms, their modes of formation, and their implications for planetary processes. This understanding will be gained through lectures, laboratory exercises, homework assignments, and a semester-long project in planetary geologic mapping, which will be written up as a conference-style abstract with references. Co-convened with AST 460. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.
Prerequisite: Graduate Status
Astronomy
Term : Winter 2025
Catalog Year : 2025-2026
AST 560 - Planetary Gemorphology
Description: This course is a beginning graduate course in the surface geology of planetary bodies in the inner and outer Solar System. It serves as an elective in the Ph.D. program in Astronomy and Planetary Science and is co-convened with AST 460, an advanced undergraduate elective. Course objectives are: 1) to learn to recognize the basic morphology created by various geologic processes, and 2) understand the associated physics that created the morphology. Students will gain a qualitative and quantitative understanding of common planetary landforms, their modes of formation, and their implications for planetary processes. This understanding will be gained through lectures, laboratory exercises, homework assignments, and a semester-long project in planetary geologic mapping, which will be written up as a conference-style abstract with references. Co-convened with AST 460. Letter grade only.
Units: 3
No sections currently offered.
Prerequisite: Graduate Status