Scientific teaching references
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These primary university and agency resources explain the scientific setting.
Descriptions and examples here are original, compact explanations of a selected
model subset. No external course content or observational data are bundled.

Plate Tectonics
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- `USGS: Developing plate-tectonics theory <https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/developing.html>`_
- `USGS: Magnetic stripes and isotopic clocks <https://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/stripes.html>`_
- `MIT: Essentials of Geophysics lecture notes <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-201-essentials-of-geophysics-fall-2004/pages/lecture-notes/>`_

Seismology
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- `USGS: Magnitude, energy release and intensity <https://www.usgs.gov/programs/earthquake-hazards/earthquake-magnitude-energy-release-and-shaking-intensity>`_
- `MIT: Essentials of Geophysics lecture notes <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-201-essentials-of-geophysics-fall-2004/pages/lecture-notes/>`_

Atmosphere
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- `MIT: Atmosphere, Ocean and Climate Dynamics <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-003-atmosphere-ocean-and-climate-dynamics-fall-2008/>`_
- `MIT: Atmospheric Radiation lecture notes <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-815-atmospheric-radiation-fall-2008/pages/lecture-notes/>`_

Climate
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- `MIT: Global Warming Science <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-340x-global-warming-science-spring-2020/>`_
- `MIT: Thermodynamics and Climate Change textbook <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-2-008-thermodynamics-and-climate-change-summer-2020/pages/open-textbook/>`_

Oceanography
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- `NOAA: Coriolis and ocean currents <https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/education/tutorial_currents/04currents1.html>`_
- `MIT: Observational Physical Oceanography lecture notes <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-808-introduction-to-observational-physical-oceanography-fall-2004/pages/lecture-notes/>`_
- `MIT: Wave Motion in the Ocean and Atmosphere <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-802-wave-motion-in-the-ocean-and-the-atmosphere-spring-2008/>`_

Geophysics
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- `MIT: Essentials of Geophysics lecture notes <https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/12-201-essentials-of-geophysics-fall-2004/pages/lecture-notes/>`_
- `NOAA NCEI: Geomagnetism <https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/geomagnetism>`_
- `NASA: GRACE <https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/>`_

Volcanology
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- `USGS Volcano Hazards Program <https://www.usgs.gov/programs/VHP>`_
- `Smithsonian Global Volcanism Program <https://volcano.si.edu/>`_