Lecture Description
September 30, 2009
Professor Edwin Schauble discusses the mechanical layers of Earth, the mantle, Earth's elevations and Ocean Basins, continental crust, Buoyancy, isostatic balance, elevation vs. oceans, abyssal hills and seamounts, continental margins, continental shelf, continental rise, submarine canyons, the unconfined tank
Lecture Notes: Lecture 3: Structure of the Earth, shape of the oceans
Course Index
- Lecture 1: Introduction to Ocean Interactions
- Lecture 2: Earth and the origins of our oceans
- Lecture 3: The shape of the ocean floor
- Lecture 4: Shape of the ocean
- Lecture 5: Earth's morphology, magnetism and dating
- Lecture 6: Plate Tectonics
- Lecture 7: Plate Tectonics 4
- Lecture 8: California tectonics, marine sediments
- Lecture 9: Marine sediments
- Lecture 10: Sediments and Seawater
- Lecture 11: Sediments and Seawater
- Lecture 12: Seawater
- Lecture 13: Seawater, pH and Wind
- Lecture 14: Seawater, pH and Wind
- Lecture 15: Wind, Currents
- Lecture 16: Currents and Winds
- Lecture 17: Currents
- Lecture 18: Currents and Waves
- Lecture 19: Breaking waves, tsunami & tides
- Lecture 20: Tides, Marine Systems, Photosynthesis and Productivity
- Lecture 21: Photosynthesis, Respiration, Productivity, Habitats & Plankton
- Lecture 22: Phytoplankton, Diatoms, Dinoflagellates, Coccolithophores, Radiolaria & Ostracods
- Lecture 23: Ostracods, Copepod, Picoplankton, Migrating Plankton, Multicellular life, Origin of Animals, Nekton
- Lecture 24: Nekton and Benthos
- Lecture 25: Marine Resources
- Lecture 26: Climate Change
- Lecture 27: Climate Change
Course Description
In this course, Prof. Edwin Schauble gives 27 video lectures on Introduction to Oceanography. This class provides a general introduction to geological, physical, chemical, and biological processes and history of Earth's global oceanic system.
Prerequisites
•High school science background
– Math: algebra & geometry, graphs
– Metric units
– Geography: maps, Earth's major features, longitude & latitude
– Chemistry: elements, atoms, molecules, chemical equations
– Physics: matter, density, waves, velocity, energy, gravity
– Biology: genus, species, evolution, plants & animals
Original Course Name: Earth & Space Science 15: Introduction to Oceanography.
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