OCEAN/ESS 545, Spring 2011
Oceanic Lithosphere

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Lecture Topics (Tentative)

  1. Introduction – What processes are we trying to understand? PPT File PDF File
  2. Steady Heat Conduction and Geotherms – T&S 4-2, 4-6 to 4-8
  3. Time-Dependent Heat Conduction – T&S 4-13, 4-14 (Notes on complex numbers)
  4. Cooling of the ocean lithosphere – T&S 4-15, 4-16
  5. Cooling of magma bodies – T&S 4-18, 4-19
  6. Body Forces, Isostacy and the Subsidence of Ocean Basins – T&S 2-2, 4-23 to 4-25
  7. Stress and strain – T&S 2-3, 2-7
  8. Stress-strain relationships – T&S 3-3 to 3-8
  9. Bending of plates – T&S 3-9
  10. Loading of from Seamounts and Trenches – T&S 3-13, 3-16, 3-17
  11. Laws of faulting and application to plate boundaries 8-2 to 8-4 (Mid-Ocean Ridges; Megathrusts)
  12. One-dimensional viscous flow 6-2 to 6-4
  13. Viscous flow in two-dimensions 6-7 to 6-9
  14. Mantle flow beneath mid-ocean ridges (Not in T&S - Notes on Passive Flow)
  15. Melting and crustal accretion beneath mid-ocean ridges (Not in T&S)
  16. Flow beneath subduction zones (6-11)
  17. Pipe models of hydrothermal flow (9-2 & Not in T&S)
  18. Student Presentations
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