Earth
and Space Sciences 502, Winter 2018
The Solid Earth Instructor: Ken Creager Email: kcc@uw.edu Office: ATG 222 Office Hours: by appointment Telephone: 206-685-2803 Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00-11:20 in JHN 027 Tentative Schedule: Subject to change as we go:
Note
that course materials (as pdf files) are linked to the right.
Jan 4 Lecture 1; read Fowler Ch 3Jan 9 Lecture 2: Earth's Magnetic Field; read Vine and Matthews Jan 10 Discuss: Vine and Matthews (Homework 1: Vine and Mathews due) Jan 16 Lecture: Standard Model Jan 17 Lecture Tomography (Homework 2: Magnetics due); read Fowler Ch 7 Jan 22 Tomography continued Jan 24 Lecture Heatflow Jan 29 Lecture Heatflow Jan 31 Discuss Grand et al. (Homework 3 due) Feb 5 Lecture Gravity Feb 7 Discuss Plate Motions Paper: Lithgow-Bertelloni and Richards (Answers to study questions due) Feb 12 Lecture on Geoid and Plate Motion Modeling Feb 14 Read Wells et al. 1998; small group discussion and class discussion Feb 20 (Tuesday) Student Presentations on layered vs whole mantle convection Feb 21 Read Peacock or Preston or Hacker on Intermediate-focus earthquakes; discuss outside class and then in groups in class Feb 26 Read Bostock, Blakely or Hansen on Serpentine Wedge; discuss outside class and then in groups in class Feb 28 Read Rogers and Ide or Wech or Houston on Tremor and slow slip; same process as above Mar 5 Read/discuss Royer, Schmandt, Shelly Mar 7 Read/discuss Wiens, Atwater, VanWagoner, Hotovec Mar 12 Group Presentations 10:00-11:20 (Finals week) Mar 15 Final Papers due |