GEOL599: Plate tectonics over time

Slides and notes from class presentations

• Week 1: Becker Introduction
• Week 3:
  • Bailey on Witze (2006)
  • Loyd on Cawood (2006)
  • Petryshyn on Condie & Benn (2006)
  • Behr on Stern (2005)
• Week 4:
  • Becker Thermal convection notes
  • references
    • Plumes
      • Richard et al. (Science, 1989) on plumes and large igneous provinces
      • De Paolo & Manga (Science 2003): Pro deep origin of hotspots.
      • Foulger & Natland (Science 2003): Contra deep origin of hotspots.
      • Courtillot et al. (2003): Review of hotspot and plumes
      • Mc Nutt (Science, 2006) on "Another Nail in the Plume Coffin?"
    • Slabs at the CMB: Tan & Gurnis (G-Cubed, 2002)
• Week 5
  • Anderson on petrology and tectonics over time
  • Davis on supercontinental cycles
• Week 7
  • Student presentations
    • Steedman on Korenaga (2006)
    • Johanesen on Christensen (1985)
    • Fischer on Lenardic et al. (2005)
  • Matlab Intro
    • Matlab Intro from Caltech for reference
    • Matlab exercise, and script.
• Week 8
  • Thermal evolution models Matlab exercise
    • Exercise handout. Korenaga (2006) paper
    • Matlab scripts/templates: heatprod.m, qt2.m, scaling.m, test_cooling.m, test_ode.m, test_runge_kutta.m, and test_scaling.m.
• Week 10
  • Loyd on Steinberger & O'Connell (1997)
  • Petryshyn on Evans (2004)
• Week 13
  • Fischer on Grigne et al. (2004)
  • Steedman on van Hunen et al. (2006)
  • Bailey on Goldreich & Toomre (1969)
  • Behr on Maloof et al. (2006)
• Week 15
  • Loyd on Harrison et al. (2004)
  • Behr on Moores (2002)
  • Petryshyn on Moyen (2006) li>Bailey on Collerson et al. (1999)
  • Week 16
    • Becker wrap up presentation on thermal evolution