SUMMER INSTITUTE: USING PARTICLE PHYSICS TO UNDERSTAND AND IMAGE THE EARTH

Origin and evolution of the Earth (Composition. Methods to study the Earth: geology, mineralogy, petrology, geochemistry, geodynamics); Geochemical model of the earth; Earth mineralogy and its phase transition;Distribution of radioactive nuclides in the Earth; Calculating the Earth heat and the neutrino luminosity

Not scheduled

5h

Main Lecture Hall; Room A; Library (Gran Sasso Science Institute)

Speaker

Prof. William McDonough (Maryland University)

Description

mcdonoug(AT)umd.edu

Presentation materials

Slides

Composiiton_of_Earth.pptx

exercise_Tuesday.xlsx

Heat_Production_and_Neutrino_Luminosity_in_different_Earth_reservoirs.pdf

Ocean-detector.ppt