Subject Code: ES5L101 Subject Name: Understanding Earth System L-T-P: 3-0-0  Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s):  Nil
Earth as a planet; size, shape and mass of Earth. Relative and absolute age-dating of Earth. Earthquakes and seismic waves; Earth’s internal structure; Earth’s magnetic and gravity fields; palaeomagnetism. Continental and oceanic crust; Continental drift; Ocean floor spreading; Plate Tectonics. Structure of Atmosphere and related phenomena, Origin and Evolution of ocean basins, Ocean Circulation, Global Warming; causes and effects Composition of the earth; characteristics and elemental abundance in different layers. Geological processes operating on the surface of earth.
Text/ Reference Books:
  1. Kent C. Condie, Earth as an Evolving Planetary System, Academic Press.
  2. Naotatsu Shikazono, Introduction to Earth and Planetary System Science: New View of Earth, Planets and Humans, Springer.
  3. H. Jay Melosh, Planetary Surface Processes, Cambridge University Press.