Earth and Space Sciences 502, Winter 2012
The Solid Earth

Instructor: Ken Creager
Email: kcc@ess.washington.edu

Office: ATG 222
Office Hours: by appointment
Telephone: 685-2803



Announcements

First Class Day
Note that course materials (as pdf files) are linked to the right.
Jan 3 Lecture 1; read Fowler Ch 3
Jan 5 Lecture: Standard Model; read Vine and Matthews

Jan 10 Lecture 2 Earth Magnetic Field
Jan 12 Discuss: Vine and Matthews (Turn in blurb on VM paper)

Jan 17 Lecture Tomography (Homework 1: Magnetics due); read Fowler Ch 7
Jan 19 SNOWED OUT

Jan 24 Lecture Tomography/ Heatflow
Jan 26 Lecture Heatflow

Jan 31 Discuss Grand et al. (Homework 2 due)
Feb 2 Lecture Gravity

Feb 7 Discuss Plate Motions Paper: Lithgow-Bertelloni and Richards (Answers to study questions due)
Feb 9 No Class

Feb 14 Lecture on deep earthquakes and summarize Cascadia Tectonics
Feb  16 Student Presentations on layered vs whole mantle convection

Feb 21 Read Wells et al. 1998; small group discussion and class discussion
Feb 23 Read Peacock or Preston on Intermediate-focus earthquakes; discuss outside class and then in groups in class

Feb 28 Read Bostock and Blakely on Serpentine Wedge; discuss outside class and then in groups in class
Mar 1 Read RogersDragert and Ide or Wech on Tremor and slow slip; same process as above

Mar 8  Read/discuss more papers
Mar 10 Read/discuss more papers

Mar 15; Group Presentations
Course Syllabus
ActiveLearningModel
Lecture 1
Vine_Matthews
Lecture 2 Earth Magneitic Field
Assignment #1 Magnetics
Scientific Writing Guidlines
Magnetic Field Reversal Movie
Tomography Lecture
Tomography Frederik Simons
Assignment #2 Grand paper
Grand et al
Anderson 2001
Lecture Heat Flow
Lecture Gravity
PlateMotionsPaper
Study Questions for Plate Motions
SurfaceObservations
pro-layered: Hamilton
pro-layered: Kellog et al
another alternate view: Karato
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Web site dedicated to layered agenda
midtermProject