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EPSS 245C - Seismology, Tectonics and Earth's Interior Seminar
Title: Laboratory Heat Transfer Measurements of Magnetoconvective (MC) in Liquid Gallium - & - Radial Anisotropy in the Indian Ocean from Higher Mode Surface Waves and a Hierarchical Transdismensional Approach
Date: Dec. 2, 2020
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
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EPSS 286A - Planetary Science Seminar
Title: Atmospheric Mixing in Cool Exoplanet Analogs
Date: Dec. 2, 2020
Time: 1 p.m. - 2:05 p.m.
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EPSS 235A - Geocheminar
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Date: Dec. 3, 2020
Time: 3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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EPSS 245C - Seismology, Tectonics and Earth's Interior Seminar
Title: Models of thermal vs. compositional convection in Earth’s core - & - The effect of lithospheric structure on the lithospheric stress field
Date: Dec. 9, 2020
Time: noon - 1 p.m.
Speaker: Jewel Abbate
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