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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
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Note
that course materials (as pdf files) are linked to the right.
Jan 3 Lecture 1; read Fowler Ch 3Jan 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 |
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