Week: 3 Rare Earth Elements and Geochemistry
Course Material
- Week: 1 Introduction, Units of measurements, Geological Time Scale, Properties of Elements, Geochemical Classification
- Week: 2 Chemical Bonding, Ionic Bonding, Crystal Structure of Silicate Minerals, Ionic Substitution in crystals (Goldschmidt’s rules)
- Week: 3 Rare Earth Elements and Geochemistry
- Week: 4 Resources, Reserves, Energy Resources, Mining, Environmental and Sustainability
- Week: 5 Principles of Stable Isotope fractionation, Hydrogen, Oxygen, Carbon, Sulphur, Nitrogen and other elements
- Week: 6 The Geological Record, Specifics of biological activity, Biominerals, Biological controls on ocean atmosphere system.
- Week: 7 Diagenetic transformation of organic matter, Biomarkers, Metals in organic matter, Environments (Phanerozoic climates, Quaternary climates, Mesozoic and Cenozoic climates
- Week: 8 The rise of atmospheric oxygen, The 2.1 Ga crisis, The snowball earth and emergence of Metazoans, The Geochemical environment of the origin of life.
- Week: 9 Radiogenic Isotopes
- Week: 10 Stable Isotopes
- Week: 11 Geothermometry and Geobarometry, Tools for Geobarometry
- Week: 12 Earth Supersystem Core Mantle Crust System
- Week: 13 Introduction to Thermodynamics, Phase Rule, Component Systems
- Week: 14 Mineral reactions, Early diagenesis, hydrothermal reactions, Metamorphism, Water/rock ratios
- Week: 15 Major and Minor Elements
- Week: 16 The Crust Hydrosphere Atmosphere system Cosmochemistry
- Chapters 16
- Department Earth Sciences
- Teacher
Mr. Abdul Hannan
