SYLLABUS
Date | Topic | Reading/Homework | Lecturer |
30 MAR | Historical Perspective |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 1, 3;
Lecture notes |
YF |
01 APR | Deformation in the Crust and Mantle |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.10 Lecture notes |
YF |
06 APR | Magnetic Anomalies and Seafloor Spreading |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 4.1 Pacific-Antarctic movies Lecture notes |
YF |
08 APR | Earthquakes and focal mechanisms |
Homework 1
Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.1, 2.10.1-2.10.3 Lecture notes |
YF |
13 APR | Plate tectonics on a plane |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 5.10-5.11; Cox and Hart, Chapter 2 (Electronic reserves) Tanya Atwater's movies Lecture notes |
YF |
15 APR | Plate tectonics on a sphere |
Homework 2
Read: KK&V, Ch. 5.1, 5.3, 5.9; Cox and Hart, Ch. 4 (Electronic reserves) Southwest Pacific Movie Lecture notes |
YF |
20 APR | Internal Structure of the Earth |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.3, 2.4, 2.8, 2.9, 2.12 Lecture notes |
YF |
22 APR | Seismo-Tectonics |
Homework 3
Read: KK&V, Ch. 5.2 Lecture notes |
YF |
27 APR | Convergent margins | Read: KK&V, Ch. 9.1-9.7 Lecture notes |
YF |
29 APR | Transform faults |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 4.2, 8 Lecture notes |
YF |
04 MAY | Mid-term exam | YF | |
06 MAY | Mid-Ocean Ridges |
Homework 4
Read: KK&V, Ch. 6 Animation of a propagating ridge Lecture notes |
YF |
11 MAY | Orogeny | Read: KK&V, Ch. 10.1-10.4; Twiss and Moores, Ch. 20.12 Lecture notes |
YF |
13 MAY | Appalachians |
Homework 5
Read: KK&V, Ch. 10.6 Lecture notes |
YF |
18 MAY | Mantle Convection and Plate Driving Forces |
Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.13, 12 Lecture notes |
YF |
20 MAY | Volcanism |
Read:KK&V, Ch. 5.5, 5.7 Lecture notes |
YF |
25 MAY | Tectonics in your backyard | local field trip | YF |
27 MAY | Gravity, Isostasy, and Flexure |
Homework 6
Read: KK&V, Ch. 2.11 Lecture notes |
YF |
01 JUN | Tectonic geodesy | Read: KK&V, Ch. 5.8 Lecture notes |
YF |
03 JUN | Tectonics and environmnent | Read: KK&V, Ch. 13.1-13.2 Lecture notes |
YF |
8 JUN 3-6 pm |
Final exam |
Textbook:
Global Tectonics, Keary, Klepeis and Vine (3rd Ed.), Blackwell, 2008.
Reference Books:
Plate Tectonics Cox and Hart, Allen & Unwin, Boston, MA, 1986.
Structural Geology, 2nd Ed. Twiss and Moores, Freeman and Co., NY, 2007.
Principles of structural geology, J. Suppe, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1985.
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