SYLLABUS
| Date | Topic | Reading/Homework | Lecturer |
| 31 MAR | Historical Perspective |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 1, 3;
Class notes |
SC |
| 02 APR | Magnetic Anomalies and Seafloor Spreading |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 4 Pacific-Antarctic movies Class notes |
SC |
| 07 APR | Plate tectonics on a plane |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 5.10; Cox and Hart, Chapter 2 (Electronic reserves) Tanya Atwater's movies Class notes |
SC |
| 09 APR | Plate tectonics on a sphere |
Homework 2
Read: KK&V, Ch. 5.1-5.4, 5.8-5.9; Cox and Hart, Ch. 4 (Electronic reserves) Southwest Pacific Movie Class notes |
SC |
| 14 APR | Ocean Ridges and Transforms | Read: KK&V, Ch. 6 Animation of a propagating ridge Class notes |
SC |
| 16 APR | Subduction Zones | Read: KK&V, Ch. 9.1-9.7 Homework reading Homework 3 Class notes |
SC |
| 21 APR |
Back-Arc Basins and Andean Collisions |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 9.8-9.10; 10.1-10.2 Class notes |
SC |
| 23 APR | Continental Collisions | Read: KK&V, Ch. 10.4; Moores
and Twiss, Ch. 12.4 Class notes |
SC |
| 28 APR | Mid-term exam | Read: | SC |
| 30 APR | Earthquakes | Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.1, 2.10.1-2.10.3 | YF |
| 05 MAY | SeismoTectonics | Read: Class notes | YF |
| 07 MAY | Gravity and Isostasy | Homework 4 Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.11 Class notes |
YF |
| 12 MAY | Internal Structure of the Earth |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.3, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12 Class notes |
YF |
| 14 MAY | Mantle Convection and Plate Driving Forces | Homework 5 Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.13, 12 Class notes |
YF |
| 19 MAY | Mantle Plumes and Large Igneous Provinces |
Read:KK&V, Ch. 5.4-5.7 Class notes |
YF |
| 21 MAY | Deformation in the Crust and Mantle | Homework 6 Read: Class notes |
ND |
| 26 MAY | Continental Rifts | Read: Class notes | ND |
| 28 MAY | Basin Formation | Read: Class notes | ND |
| 02 JUN | Tectonics and Driving Subsidence | Read: Class notes | ND |
| 04 JUN | Tectonics in your backyard | Read: | ND |
| 09 JUN 3-6 pm |
Final exam | Read: |
Textbook:
Global Tectonics, Keary, Klepeis and Vine (3rd Ed.), Blackwell, 2008.
Reference Books:
Plate Tectonics Cox and Hart, Allen & Unwin, Boston, MA, 1986.
Principles of structural geology, J. Suppe, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.
Mantle Dynamics: Dynamic Earth: Plates,
Plumes and Mantle Convection, Davies, G. F., Cambridge University Press,
1999.
Getting started with Matlab, R. Pratap
Computer Homework:
Computer homework can be done most easily by using MATLAB
which runs on most machines. If you do not have a computer account
we will set you up.