Lecture 18 outline and notes

0) Review: Doppler shift

1) Extrasolar planets

2) Characterization of stars

3) Brown dwarfs

4) What is the Solar neighborhood?

5) The Solar neighborhood

Geology:

6) The composition and differentiation of the Earth

7) Minerals and surface rocks and their environments.

8) Evolutions of rocks and environments erosion; orogenies; depositions.

9) Interactions between life and geology: carbonate rocks.

10) Carbon cycle on Earth.

11) Terrestrial hydrological cycle.

The midterm is on Friday, October 10, 2008. Make sure you are on time! Bring a calculator!


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