Acronyms
LAB
What is the Lithosphere-Asthenosphere Boundary?
April 18, 1906
What was the Great San Francisco earthquake?
Cares about earthquakes and measuring Earth's elastic properties
What is a Seismologist?
Introduction to Physical Geology
What is Earth 2?
Structural Seismology, Plate tectonics, Geodynamics, Marine Geophysics
Who is Prof. Zach Eilon?
CMB
What is the Core-Mantle Boundary?
January 17, 1994
What was the Northridge earthquake?
Cares about eruptions and hazards associated with extrusive igneous events.
What is a Volcanologist?
Seismology
Earthquake rupture, fault behaviour, stress drop, seismic energy radiation
Who is Prof. Chen Ji?
VEI
What is the Volcanic Explosivity Index?
11 March 2011
What was the Tohoku-Oki earthquake?
Cares about Earth processes that underlie phenomena, often modelling them with computer simulations or pure math
What is a Geodynamicist?
Plate tectonics and mantle dynamics
What is Earth 133?
Volcano geophysics, Volcano seismology, Infrasound, hydroacoustics
Who is Prof. Robin Matoza?
AVO
What is Amplitude Versus Offset?
June 29, 1925
What was the Santa Barbara earthquake?
Cares about the shape of the Earth, motions of the surface, and the gravitational field
What is a Geodesist?
Digital Analysis and Interpretation of Field Data
What is Earth 104G?
Age and composition of the continental crust.
Who is Prof. Roberta Rudnick?
PREM
What is the Preliminary Reference Earth Model?
January 26, 1700
Measures the electrical and magnetic fields to understand the Earth's resistivity/conductivity structure
What is a Magnetotelluricist?
Independent Studies in Geology
What is Earth 199?
Geomorphology, geochemistry, global carbon cycle, natural hazards and sedimentology