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| GEOL0224-1 | Paleoclimatology
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| Duration : | 15h Th, 15h Pr |
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| Holder(s) : | Nathalie Fagel |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | The course is organised in 7 sections
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Climate system
- 3. Dating methods
- 4. Climate archives
- 5. Climate changes: (a) since the Earth's formation, (b) the Quaternary
- 6. Factors of climate changes
- 7. Climate predictions
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| Course objective : | The aims are:
- to explain rthe paleoclimate approach. What are the available geological tools or archive? What are the most appropriate dating methods? How accurate are the proposed climate reconstructions?
- To illustrate the natural climate variability over different timescales, since the Earth's formation until the recent climate changes
- to identify the driving factors of climate changes. The influence of human activities will be also discussed through IPCC (Intergovernment Panel for Cimate Change) predictions for the next century climate.
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| Prerequisites : | None. The course will be adapted taking into account the basic formation and/or knowlegdes of the audience |
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| Workshops : | Individual and collective exercices (calibration of radiocarbon age and age model establishment, calculation of transfert function, discussion of scientific papers). Visits of specific laboratories working on paleoclimate archives at ULg and/or in others universities |
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| Organization : | First semester, 10 x 3h/ week. Lectures followed by exercises. |
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| Written notes : | Copy of figures and tables presented during lectures. |
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| Assessment : | Theory (50% final evaluation)- individual oral examination (15 min. + preparation)- Comments on figures and/or tables from the lectures.
TP = 50% final evaluation. Individual report of exercises,10 pages max. |
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| Contacts : | Nathalie Fagel
Chargée de cours, Département de Géologie, Unité de recherche AGEs - Argiles, Géochimie et Environnements sédimentaires - B18, Allée du 6 Août, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
Fax: 04.366.2029
Tel: 04.366.2029
e-mail: nathalie.fagel@ulg.ac.be
www.ulg.ac.be/urap (http://www.ulg.ac.be/urap) |
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