Variant of the Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP) Canada 2021 Version 1.0 for Alternative primary groupings

40.0603 - Geophysics and seismology

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the scientific study of the physics of solids and its application to the study of the Earth and other planets. These programs include courses in gravimetrics, seismology, earthquake forecasting, magnetrometry, electrical properties of solid bodies, plate tectonics, active deformation, thermodynamics, remote sensing, geodesy, and laboratory simulations of geological processes.

  • Illustrative example(s)

    • computational geophysics
    • geophysics
    • seismology

    All examples

  • Exclusion(s)

    • geology(40.0601)
    • physics(40.0801)
    • scientific computing(30.3001)
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