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Unit convenor and teaching staff |
Unit convenor and teaching staff
Simon Turner
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Credit points |
Credit points
10
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Prerequisites |
Prerequisites
Permission by special approval
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Corequisites |
Corequisites
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Co-badged status |
Co-badged status
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Unit description |
Unit description
This unit is designed to engage students with the current research that is happening in the field of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Activities undertaken will include seminar attendance, the directed reading of research papers in readiness for seminars, and the discussion and critiquing of research topics. A presentation of a seminar and written reports based on the seminars and discussion topics are required for completion of this unit. |
Information about important academic dates including deadlines for withdrawing from units are available at https://www.mq.edu.au/study/calendar-of-dates
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
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ASSIGNMENTS/ RESEARCH PAPER
The assignments will consist of a paper, which results from your reading on individually selected topics, related to the weekly discussions. The first short assignment will consist solely of a synopsis of two presented research papers, presented in the form of a Nature News and Views article. The second, larger, paper is an in-depth analysis of one of the discussion topics. The paper you submit should be in the form of a paper for submission to the journal; Journal of Geophysical Research. It should be typed, double spaced, and about 3000 words in length and adequately illustrated with appropriate figures.
Two seminars will be given during the course of unit, each on one paper up for discussion in a given week. The format should be as per a conference presentation. The seminars will be assessed, as is student participation in the critical discussion of each paper.
EXTENSIONS AND PENALTIES:
Whenever possible requests for an extension should be submitted prior to an assignment’s due date. Late assignments will be date stamped and a penalty of 10% per day (Monday to Friday) will be deducted from the total mark.
ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM.
Plagiarism involves using the work of another person and presenting it as one’s own. If you use the work of another person without clearly stating or acknowledging the source, you are falsely claiming that material as your own work and committing an act of PLAGIARISM. This is a very serious violation of good practice and an offence for which you will be penalised. You should read the University's policies and procedures on plagiarism. These can be found at: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html
The policies and procedures explain what plagiarism is, how to avoid it, the procedures taken in cases of suspected plagiarism, and the penalties if you are found guilty. Penalties may include a deduction of marks, failure in the unit, and/or referral to the University Discipline Committee.
As such, all assignments must have a signed “Faculty of Science” (FoS) assignment cover sheet attached. These sheets are available from the Science centre or from the FoS WEB page.
UNIVERSITY POLICIES
Macquarie is developing a number of policies in the area of learning and teaching. Approved policies and associated guidelines and procedures can be found at Policy Central: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/ . There you will find the University’s policy and associated procedures on assessment, Special Consideration and grade appeal.
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Lecture Times
Time: Wednesdays, 3-5pm.
Venue: 12SW Room 301.
TEXTBOOK AND TECHNOLOGY USED
There is no set textbook for this unit, but a number of reference texts worth considering are:
QE509.4.D38/1999 Davies G.F., Dynamic Earth, Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection, 1999
QC806.F625 Fowler C.M.R., The Solid Earth, 1990
QE501.T83 Turcotte D.L. & Schubert G., Geodynamics, 1982
QE509.4 .S38 Schubert G., Turcotte D.L., Olson, P., Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets, 2001
The unit also has a WEB site which can be found through the Online Learning @ MQ WEBSITE at http://learn.mq.edu.au/. This site contains information such as the papers to be discussed in class. At the start of the year you should be issued with a username and password to access all the WEB sites available for the units you have taken. This will get you into the front page of the GEOS700 WEB site. Please note that some sections within the WEB site require an internal username and password; the username is geos700 and please see, or call me to obtain the password. Information for students about access to online units is available at
https://learn.mq.edu.au/webct/RelativeResourceManager/25994001/Public%20Files/uw/software.html
Below is a list of references that may be helpful in expanding certain aspects of the unit.
REFERENCES
QC806.A515 Anderson D.L., Theory of the Earth, 1989
QE501.A7513/1984 Artyushkov E.V., Geodynamics
QB501.N47 Beatty J.K. & Chaikin A. (Eds), The New Solar System (3rd ed.), 1990
QE509.B75 Bott M.P., The interior of the Earth (2nd ed.), 1982
QE501.4.P35.B88 Butler R.F., Paleomagnetism, 1991
QE527.7 .C66/2001 Candie K.C., Mantle Plumes and their record in Earth History, 2001
QC806.C65 Cook A.H., Physics of the Earth and Planets, 1973
QE511.4.C683/1986 Cox A. & Hart R.B., Plate tectonics: how it works, 1986
QC806.D39 De Bremaecker J-C, Geophysics: The earth’s Interior, 1985
QB501.N18 Dermott S.F. (Ed), The origin of the Solar System, 1977
QE501.E67/1990 Ernst W.G., The Dynamic Planet
QC827.I7 Irving E., Paleomagnetism, 1964
QE509.E234/1998 Jackson I, The Earth's Mantle, 1998
QE509.J27/1992 Jacobs J.A. Deep Interior of the Earth, 1992
QE509.E232/2000 Karato S. et al, Earth's Deep Interior, 2000
QE511.4.K43/1996 Kearey P. & Vine F.J., Global Tectonics (2nd Ed), 1996
QE35.E18 McElhinny M.W., The Earth, its Origin, Structure and Evolution, 1979
QE501.4.P35.M35/2000 McElhinny M.W. & McFadden, Paleomagnetism: continents and oceans, 2000
QC816.M4 Merrill R.T. & McElhinny M.W., The Earth’s Magnetic Field, 1983
QC816.M47/1996 Merrill R.T., McElhinny M.W. & McFadden P.L. The magnetic field of the Earth: palaeomagnetism, the core, and the deep mantle, 1996
QE511.4.H57/2000 Richards et al, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, 2000
QE501.S3/1982 Scheidegger A.E., Principles of Geodynamics
QC806.S54/1997 Sleep N.H. & Fujita K., Principles of Geophysics, 1997
QE26.2.C35 Smith D.G. (Ed), The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Earth Sciences
QC806.S65 Stacey F.D., Physics of the Earth (2nd & 3rd eds.), 1977 & 1992
QE511.44.G46 Summerfield M.A., Geomorphology and Global Tectonics, 2000
QE340.B55 Veevers J. J., Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland, 2000
QE340.B552 Veevers J.J., ATLAS of Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland, 2001
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Students seeking more policy resources can visit the Student Policy Gateway (https://students.mq.edu.au/support/study/student-policy-gateway). It is your one-stop-shop for the key policies you need to know about throughout your undergraduate student journey.
If you would like to see all the policies relevant to Learning and Teaching visit Policy Central (https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policy-central).
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