The United States is often assumed to have an isolationist heritage, built on the geographical and political separation of the New World from the Old. This...

The United States is often assumed to have an isolationist heritage, built on the geographical and political separation of the New World from the Old. This course will explore an alternative interpretation of the United States’ relations with the wider world, focusing on the evolution of American internationalism between the U.S. Civil War and the Treaty of Versailles. In particular, we will focus on the development of American ideas about ordering the international community, the relationship between internationalism and American imperialism, and the connections between domestic and foreign politics. Seminars will be centred on discussion of the assigned primary documents, supplemented by secondary reading.

EARTH MATERIALS|PLANETARY MATERIALS|EARTH AND PLANETARY MATERIALS|EARTH SCIENCES

The module has a common first-half which provides an introduction to the methods of crystallography and crystal structure determination. This is followed by...

Earth and Planetary Materials (GEOL0026)

The module has a common first-half which provides an introduction to the methods of crystallography and crystal structure determination. This is followed by one of the following streams covering either: (a) crystal physics and its applications to Earth and Planetary forming materials, (b) structures and properties of environmental minerals, such as clays and zeolites, (c) applications of mineralogy to rock-forming minerals, (d) applications to planetary sciences.

By the end of this module students will demonstrate:

Part 1: Knowledge and understanding of the techniques of X-ray and neutron diffraction; and

Part 2: Either

The application of these methods, and the use of crystal physics, to the determination of thermoelastic and structural properties of Earth and planetary forming materials;
	the structures and properties of minerals in surface environments and their environmental and economic importance;
	the structures and properties of rock-forming minerals and their applications in geology, e.g. phase equilibria, geobarometry, etc.