Course Overview

This course aims to introduce students to the chemical feature of our planet and basic principles for geochemistry and mineral chemistry.

Learning Achievement

This course aims to introduce students to the chemical feature of our planet and basic principles for geochemistry and mineral chemistry.

Competence

Lectures will give a basic introduction of these subjects for further study in later years.
Students will gain highly specialized knowledge and grasp diverse research methods related to earth science. And, also students will acquire abilities for analyzing scientific data and information in an appropriate method and guiding reasonable inferences.

Course prerequisites

None

Grading Philosophy

Report (100 %), no examination.

Course schedule

Principles of radioactivity (1) Nucleus, Nuclide, Isotope
Principles of radioactivity (2) Stability of Nuclide
Principles of radioactivity (3) Modes of Radioactive Decay
Isochron method and age determination (1) Basic idea for Geochronology
Isochron method and age determination (2) Isochron method
Isochron method and age determination (3) K-Ar and Ar-Ar methods
Isochron method and age determination (4) U-Pb method and concordia diagram
Isochron method and age determination (5) 14C and cosmogenic nuclide
Isotope geochemistry (1)
Isotope geochemistry (2)

Course type

Lectures

Online Course Requirement

Instructor

Maruoka Teruyuki,Fujisaki Wataru

Other information

Site for Inquiry

Link to the syllabus provided by the university