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This course is part of the international master's degree program Climate, Earth, Water, Sustainability (CLEWS). The module provides an understanding of environmental processes and driving forces of the climate system through earth history and deals with the following aspects: geological approaches, climate archives, palaeoecological approaches, proxy records, modelling approaches, icehouse stages and greenhouse stages in earth history, climate variability at long to short time scales, abrupt climate changes, role of the global carbon cycle through time, biospheric-geospheric interactions. The module comprises a lecture series, a seminar with poster presentations by the students, and geological field exercises.

Das ist die Moodle-Seite des Kurses GEW-B-P03 - Einführung in die Geowissenschaften III - Sedimentäre Systeme im Wintersemester 22/23

This module aims to familiarise students with current ideas about the structure and mechanical behaviour of the lithosphere, in terms of its thermal structure and rheology. The forces driving plate tectonics, the rheology of the lithosphere, the dynamics of orogenic processes, numerical modelling of deformation of the lithosphere, as well as the coupling between mantle dynamics and surface processes are covered.

Through following this course, students:

- gain an understanding of the structure and dynamics of the lithosphere and the forces driving its deformation

- gain familiarity with modern quantitative methods for observing and modelling the deformation of the lithosphere and its driving forces

- learn to analyse modern research questions in tectonics and geodynamics by studying the literature on a chosen topic

Das Modul vermittelt grundlegende Kenntnisse zu Wärmetransportvorgängen und die daraus resultierende Wärme- und Temperaturverteilung der Erdkruste. Neben theoretischen und physikalischen Grundlagen zu thermischen Gesteinsparametern und thermischen Feldern werden gängige Verfahren zur Bestimmung der thermischen Eigenschaften vorgestellt; dabei wird auf die Gewinnung und Bearbeitung der (Mess-) Daten und die Interpretation der Resultate eingegangen.

Introduces the basic concepts of nonlinear dynamics and chaos and how they can be applied for the study of complex systems, spatiotemporal data, and nonlinear interrelationships in geosciences. Methods based on information theory, recurrences properties, and complex networks are taught and their potentials are demonstrated. The fundamentals of statistical tests are introduced and how to construct appropriate statistical tests for specific applications are discussed.