Week: 1 Introduction to Igneous Petrology
Petrology and its scope, Major structural units of the Earth, Pressure distribution within the Earth, Temperature gradients and heat flow in the lithosphere, Heat sources in the Earth, Temperatures in the lithosphere: the steady-state geothermal gradient.
Course Material
- Week: 1 Introduction to Igneous Petrology
- Week: 2 Some Fundamental Concepts
- Week: 3 Physical Properties of Magma
- Week: 4 Composition and Classification of Magmatic Rocks
- Week: 5 Igneous Rocks and Intrusive Activity
- Week: 6 Magma Ascent and Emplacement
- Week: 7 Magma Extrusion and Volcanism
- Week: 8 Generation of Magma
- Week: 9 Differentiation of Magma
- Week: 10 Volcanic Land forms and Processes
- Week: 11 An Introduction to Thermodynamics
- Week: 12 Component Systems and Chemical Petrology
- Week: 13 Basalt and Oceanic Magmatism
- Week: 14 Convergent Margin Magmatism
- Week: 15 Intracontinental Volcanism
- Week: 16 Man &Volcanic Benefits and Volcanic Hazards and Monitoring
- Chapters 16
- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Mr. Abdul Hannan
