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Earth
and Space Sciences 502, Winter 2013
The Solid Earth Instructor: Ken Creager Email: kcc@ess.washington.edu Office: ATG 222 Office Hours: by appointment Telephone: 685-2803 Tentative Schedule: Subject to change as we go:
First Class Day
Note
that course materials (as pdf files) are linked to the right.
Jan 8 Lecture 1; read Fowler Ch 3Jan 10 Lecture: Standard Model; read Vine and Matthews Jan 15 Lecture 2: Earth's Magnetic Field Jan 17 Discuss: Vine and Matthews (Turn in blurb on VM paper) Jan 22 Lecture Tomography (Homework 1: Magnetics due); read Fowler Ch 7 Jan 24 Tomography Jan 29 Lecture Heatflow Jan 31 Lecture Heatflow Feb 5 Discuss Grand et al. (Homework 2 due) Feb 7 Lecture Gravity Feb 12 Discuss Plate Motions Paper: Lithgow-Bertelloni and Richards (Answers to study questions due) Feb 14 Lecture on Geoid and Plate Motion Modeling Feb 19 Lecture on Geoid and Plate Motion Modeling Feb 21 Student Presentations on layered vs whole mantle convection Feb 26 Finish Debate; paper due; Lecture on deep earthquakes and summarize Cascadia Tectonics Feb 28 Read Wells et al. 1998; small group discussion and class discussion Mar 5 Read Peacock or Preston on Intermediate-focus earthquakes; discuss outside class and then in groups in class Mar 7 Read Bostock, Blakely, Audet on Serpentine Wedge; discuss outside class and then in groups in class Mar 12 Read Rogers and Ide or Wech or Peng on Tremor and slow slip; same process as above Mar 14 Read/discuss more papers Mar 19 (12:00-2:00) Group Presentations Mar 22 Final Papers due |
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