SYLLABUS
| Date | Topic | Reading/Homework | Lecturer |
| 01 APR | Historical Perspective |
Read: K&V, Ch. 1, 3;
Class notes |
SC |
| 03 APR | Magnetic Anomalies and Seafloor Spreading | Homework 1 Read: K&V, Ch. 4 Pacific-Antarctic movies |
SC |
| 08 APR | Plate tectonics on a plane |
Read: K&V pp.
95-102; Cox and Hart, Chapter 2 (Electronic reserves) Tanya Atwater's movies |
SC |
| 10 APR | Plate tectonics on a sphere |
Homework 2
Read: K&V pp. 76-95; Cox and Hart, Ch. 4 (Electronic reserves) |
SC |
| 15 APR | Ocean Ridges and Transforms | Read: K&V, Ch. 6, 7.4 | SC |
| 17 APR | Subduction Zones | Animation of a propagating ridge Homework 3 (assigned in class) ; Read: K&V, Ch. 8 |
SC |
| 22 APR |
Back-Arc Basins and Andean Collisions |
Read: K&V, Ch. 9.1-9.2 | SC |
| 24 APR | Continental Collisions | Read: K&V, Ch. 10.1 - 10.6; Moores and Twiss, Ch. 12.4 | SC |
| 29 APR | Mid-term exam | Read: | SC |
| 01 MAY | Earthquakes | Read: K&V, Ch. 2.1 | YF |
| 06 MAY | SeismoTectonics | Read: Class notes | YF |
| 08 MAY | Gravity and Isostasy | Homework 4 Read: K&V, Ch. 2.11 Class notes |
YF |
| 13 MAY | Internal Structure of the Earth |
Read: K&V, Ch. 2.3, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12 Class notes |
YF |
| 15 MAY | Mantle Convection and Plate Driving Forces | Homework 5 Read: K&V, Ch. 2.13, 11.5-11.6 Class notes |
YF |
| 20 MAY | Mantle Plumes and Large Igneous Provinces |
Read:K&V, Ch. 5.4-5.7 Class notes |
YF |
| 22 MAY | Deformation in the Crust and Mantle | Homework 6 Read: Class notes |
ND |
| 27 MAY | Continental Rifts | Read: Class notes | ND |
| 29 MAY | Basin Formation | Read: Class notes | ND |
| 03 JUN | Tectonics and Driving Subsidence | Read: Class notes | ND |
| 05 JUN | Tectonics in your backyard | Read: | ND |
| 10 JUN 3-6 pm |
Final exam | Read: |
Textbook:
Global Tectonics, P. Keary and F. J. Vine (2nd Ed.), Blackwell, 1996.
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.