OCEAN/ESS 410, Fall 2012
Marine Geology and Geophysics

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LECTURE POWERPOINTS
Will be updated as class progresses

Modifications will be made to some lectures but no later than two days before each lecture.

You may chose to print the lectures out ahead of time to take notes.

Lecture 1. Introduction
Earth Structure and Plate Tectonics
First day class handout (pdf)

Lecture 2. Evidence for Plate Tectonics from Magnetics

Lecture 3. Understanding Conductive Cooling: A Thought Experiment

Lecture 4. Cooling of the Ocean Plates (Lithosphere)

Lecture 5. Global Seismology

Lecture 6. Used for Paper Discussion 1.

Lecture 7. Mantle Melting and Phase Diagrams

Lecture 8. Seismic Reflection and Ocean Crustal Structure

Lecture 9. Mid-Ocean Ridges

Lecture 10. Used for Paper Discussion 2.

Lecture 11. No class - Instuctor available to answer questions

Lecture 12. Used for Paper Discussion 3.

Lecture 13. Faulting and Earthquake Focal Mechanisms
& a
How to PowerPoint with detailed instructions for working with them

Lecture 14. Subduction Zones

Lecture 15. Veterans Day

Lecture 16. Physics of Sediment Transport (PDF to get symbols correct on Windows PCs) - Unit Check

Lecture 17. Sediment Transport Across the Continental Shelf and Pb-210 Dating (PDF to get symbols correct on Windows PCs) - Unit Check

Lecture 18. Used for Paper Discussion 4.

Lecture 19. Sequence Stratigraphy and Eustacy and Sediment Transport into Deep Water

Lecture 20. Deep Sea Sedimentation

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