DATE
|
TOPIC
|
READING/HOMEWORK
|
LECTURER
|
|
Introduction and
late Tectonics
|
|
|
23 SEP
|
Introduction
Global tectonic observations;
Powerpoint; |
Read: T&S, Ch.1. 1-55 or
Plate Tectonics, S,T&O, Ch. 2.
HW1
|
Sandwell
|
26 SEP
|
Plate Tectonic - Triple
Junctions
|
|
Cande
|
28 SEP
|
Plate Tectonic - Plate
Motions on Sphere
Atwater
Movies
|
Read: The
Ocean basins: Their Structure
and Evolution, Chapter 2 (in IGPP Reading Room)
|
Cande
|
30 SEP
|
Applications of
fourier transforms; |
Functions
of a Complex Variable (review);
Matlab
Tutorial
HW2
|
Sandwell
|
03 OCT
|
Marine magnetic anomalies |
|
Sandwell
|
05 OCT
|
Plate Motions,
Reconstructions, and Plumes
|
|
Sandwell
|
07 OCT
|
Quiz 1: Plate Tectonics
and Fourier Transforms exercises |
|
Sandwell
|
|
Heat Flow
|
|
|
10 OCT
|
Heat conduction, heat flow
measurements, and Global heat budget; |
Read: Heat Transfer, T&S, Ch. 4., 132-
HW3
publications
for HW3
|
Sandwell
|
12 OCT
|
Solving heat conduction problems
|
|
Sandwell
|
14 OCT
|
Cooling of dikes and sills
|
Read: Heat Transfer, T&S, Ch. 4., 166-183 |
Sandwell
|
17 OCT
|
Cooling of the oceanic
lithosphere;
Ocean floor
topography;
|
Lateral
Plate Shrinkage
Heat
flow and hydrothermal circulation
HW4 Problems from T&S, Ch. 4
4-9, 4-14, 4-23, 4-25, 4-37
DUE 24 OCT
|
Sandwell
|
19 OCT
|
Buoyancy of the lithosphere;
Cooling of a lava lake (Stefan
problem)
Summary of boundary later cooling
|
Read: Doin and
Fleitout, EPSL, 1996
Read Hillier and Watts, JGR,
2005
|
Sandwell
|
21 OCT
|
Quiz 2: Heat Flow from T&S p.
132-160 and exercises from class ( skip 4-14)
|
Read: T&S, Ch. 2. 89-104 |
Sandwell
|
|
Isostasy, Rheology, and Flexure |
|
|
24 OCT
|
Isostasy and
crustal thickness;
Review Stress and Strain
|
Read: Brace and
Kohlstedt, JGR, 1980
Burov and Watts
Burgmann and
Dresen_2008
|
Sandwell
|
26 OCT
|
Rheology of the Lithosphere
Moment vs. Curvature
|
Read: Elasticity, T&S, Ch3, 105-120
|
Sandwell
|
28 OCT
|
Presentations of heat flow
problems |
|
A -
Marine Magnetics
B -
Heat flow across SAF
|
31 OCT
|
Presentations of heat flow
problems |
|
C -
Periodic heating of the Earth's surface
D
- Temp Evolution of an oceanic fracture zone
|
02 NOV
|
Presentations of heat flow
problems |
|
E -
Global ocean heat flow
F - Heat flow
due to plume
|
04 NOV
|
Presentations of heat flow problems
Flexure Theory
|
Read: Flexure, T&S, Ch.3, 112-131;
HW5
|
G -
Frictional heating during an earthquake
|
07 NOV
|
Flexure
Examples |
|
Sandwell
|
|
Earthquakes |
|
|
09 NOV
|
Theories of faulting;
Seismic cycle. |
Reading
Interseismic
deformation due to strike-slip faults
Class notes, T&S Chapter 8, 339-359;
Heat flow paradox |
Sandwell
|
11 NOV
|
Holiday - Veterans Day
Optional Field Trip to Pinon Flat Observatory
|
|
Agnew,
Fialko
Sandwell
Shearer
|
14 NOV
|
Student presentations of
flexure problems
|
|
A - Ice shelf
flexure
B -
Seamount flexure
E - Lake
loading flexure |
16 NOV
|
Student presentations of
flexure problems |
|
C - Trench
Flexure
G - Outer Rise Yield Strength
D -
Fracture Zone Flexure
|
|
Gravity |
|
|
18 NOV
|
Reference
gravity
Gravity
Anomalies
|
Read T&S, Gravity, 195-207 |
F - Flexure on
Venus
Sandwell
|
21 NOV
|
Laplace's
equation and satellite altimetry
|
Watts, JGR, 1978
|
Sandwell
altimetry_ppt
|
23 NOV
|
Poisson's
equation and Bouguer anomalies
|
HW6
|
Sandwell
|
25 NOV
|
Holiday - Thanksgiving
|
|
|
|
Fluid Mechanics
|
|
|
28 NOV
|
Gravity/topography transfer
function; Isostatic geoid anomalies, Swell-push force
|
Read
T&S, Fluid Mechanics, 226-241
Please complete CAPE, Nov 21
- Dec 4
|
Sandwell
|
30 NOV
|
Channel Flow and Stream Function
|
HW7 Problems from T&S, Ch. 6
6-1, 6-3, 6-6, 6-11
Due Dec 8
|
Sandwell
|
02 DEC
|
Postglacial Rebound
|
|
Sandwell
|