Teaching

Physical Geology

Lecture Book: Carlson, D. H., Plummer, C. C., McGeary, D. 2006. Physical Geology: Earth Revealed. McDraw-Hill Higher Education.
Lab Book: Zumberge, J. H., Rutford, R. H., Carter, J. L. 2005. Laboratory Manual for Physical Geology. McGraw-Hill.

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Geochemical Modeling

UCLA Winter 2008 ESS 252: Geochemical Modeling
Instructor: Haibo Zou
Office: Geology 2655
Contact: hzou@ess.ucla.edu; Phone: 310-794-5047

The goal of this graduate class is to help you with broad quantitative skills that are needed to attack multidisciplinary geoscience problems. The class covers geochemical problems where equations are found useful. Deep understanding of the equations enhances the understanding of geochemical principles.

Lecture Book : Zou H. B. (2007) Quantitative Geochemistry. Imperial College Press, 287pp .
Homework: I will give you some homework for the purpose of practice. We may also discuss homework problems in class.
Student Presentations: A 20-minute presentation of the topic of your interest in the final Week 11.
Grading: Letter grading or Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory.

Lecture Schedule:
Week 1. Organizational Meeting and Introduction
Week 2. Quantitative treatment of measurement errors (Chapter 8);
Week 3. Least Square Fitting and Error Estimate (Chapter 9)
Week 4. Mass Fractionation in Ionization Processes (Chapter 10)
Week 5. Trace element behaviors during crystallization, mixing (Chapter 6);
Week 6. Trace element partitioning during melting: Simple Models (Chapters 1 and 2)
Week 7. Trace element partitioning during melting: Dynamic Melting (Chapter 3)
Week 8. Isotope (Uranium Series, Pb isotope) modeling, Isotope Dilution
Week 9. Inverse Geochemical Modeling (Chapters 5 and 11)
Week 10. Chemical Geodynamics (Chapter 13)
Week 11. Student Presentations of their interested projects

(I will slow down or speed up the schedule a bit, depending on students progress. We will start with simple equations and gradually add some difficulty to make sure that you learn something new and useful for your dissertation research.)