Tectonics - Spring 2009
Monday, May 18, 2009
All questions 1-10 complete
Thursday, May7, 2009
Strike-slip tectonics
KKV, Cha 8
Tectonics through time
Earthscope
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Question 6 (all parts).
Final Delamination Paper: Emerald S.
Journal Watch - Continent-Continent Collision
KKV Chapter 7: Continental rifts and rifted margins
Carefully: Lister, Gordon S., and Davis, Gregory A., 1989, The origin of metamorphic core complexes and detachment faults formed during tertiary continental extension in the northern Colorado River region, U.S.A. Journal of Structural Geology, v.11, p. 65-94. (This volume of JSG is in my office)
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Delamination - Paper summaries (Karen, Suzanne, Emerald),
Journal Watch - Continent-Continent Collision
Read Carefully - KKV Cha. 10.
Discussion: Rudnick and Fountain paper (from below).
Igneous processes in Continal Arcs - Review Wilson, Cha. 7
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Don Wise - orogenic Belt Summary - Rocky Mountains
Isostacy - Improbablia
I am sorry that I will be in Washington DC on Tuesday for a hastily-called meeting, I will miss Don's presentation. Mike.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Finish orogenic belt papers (Karen, Suzanne, Emerald)
Delamination - Paper summaries (Dan, Mariel, Christine),
Journal Watch - Continent-Continent Collision
Read Carefully - KKV Cha. 10.
Discussion: Rudnick and Fountain paper (from below).
Igneous processes in Continal Arcs - Review Wilson, Cha. 7
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
No class - Monday class schedule followed
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Discussion of Orogenic Belts
Student summaries of the four "Type" orogenic belts and the significance of "Nappes"
Alps, Taconic Appalchians, Acadian Appalachians, North American Cordilleria
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
General questions: 4 f,g and 5a,b,c
Introduciton to Continental crust and strength profiles
Nature of Continental Crust
KKV: p. 21-23; 29, 33-39.
Rudnick, R.L., and Fountain, D., M., 1995, Nature and composition of the continental crust: a lower crustal perspective: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 33, p. 267-309.
Reading: M. Wilson, Chapter 7: Continental Arcs
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Accretionary Prisms
General questions: 5a,b,c (Due after this class...)
Introduciton to Continental crust and strength profiles
Nature of Continental Crust
KKV: p. 21-23; 29, 33-39.
Rudnick, R.L., and Fountain, D., M., 1995, Nature and composition of the continental crust: a lower crustal perspective: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 33, p. 267-309.
Reading: M. Wilson, Chapter 7: Continental Arcs
Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Sorry everyone, for the change... Tuesday, we will complete the Cox exercises and Don will make a presetation on and spectacular example of roll-back tectonics.
Discussion of Cox map exercises
General questions: 4 d,e,f,g
(for now hold on f and g... until next week, but please go on to question 5.)
Accretionary Prisms
General questions: 5a,b,c
Introduciton to Continental crust and strength profiles
Nature of Continental Crust
KKV: p. 21-23; 29, 33-39.
Rudnick, R.L., and Fountain, D., M., 1995, Nature and composition of the continental crust: a lower crustal perspective: Reviews of Geophysics, v. 33, p. 267-309.
Reading: M. Wilson, Chapter 7: Continental Arcs
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Discussion of Cox map exercises
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
I very much hope that we can get to Accretionary Prisms on Tuesday, but if we don't we will get to them on Thursday. PLEASE read the very classic Platt paper and look at the Dahlen.
Accretionary Prisms
KKV: 264-275 Accretionary Prisms.
Platt, J.P., 1986, Dynamics of orogenic wedges and the uplift of high-pressure metamorphic rocks: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 97, p. 1037-1053.
Review/skim: Dahlen, F.A., 1990, Critical taper model of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges. Annual Review of earth and Planetary Sciences, 18, 55-99.
Metamorphism in arcs
KKV 275-279: Metamorphic processes in Insland Arcs.
MLW to begin discussion, reading to follow
Thursday, March 26, 2009
General questions: 4a,b,c
We will complete: Hamilton, W.B., 1988, Plate tectonics and island arcs: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1503-1527. {This is a landmark paper; lots of insight in there. Come with questions.}
Igneous processes at Island Arcs: Wilson, Cha. 6 Island Arcs p. 153-190. :
Metamorphic processes in Insland Arcs KKV 275-279.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
No class Northeast GSA -- Everyone should be going!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
PLEASE READ:
We will complete: Hamilton, W.B., 1988, Plate tectonics and island arcs: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1503-1527. {This is a landmark paper; lots of insight in there. Come with questions.}
Igneous processes at Island Arcs: Wilson, Cha. 6 Island Arcs p. 153-190. :
Metamorphic processes in Insland Arcs KKV 275-279.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
We will finally get to:
**Hamilton, W.B., 1988, Plate tectonics and island arcs: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1503-1527. {This is a landmark paper; lots of insight in there. Come with questions.}
Thursday, March 5, 2009
General Questions: 3a, b.
Wilson, Cha. 6 Island Arcs p. 153-190.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
General Questions: 2e, f, g.
Journal Watch: Subduction
**Hamilton, W.B., 1988, Plate tectonics and island arcs: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1503-1527. {This is a landmark paper; lots of insight in there. Come with questions.}
Thursday, February 26, 2009
General Questions: 2 a-d.
We will discuss Wilson, Chapeter 5, please review.
KK&V - Chapter 9, p. 249-279 Subduction Zones
Hamilton, W.B., 1988, Plate tectonics and island arcs: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1503-1527. {This is a landmark paper; lots of insight in there. Come with questions.}
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
KK&V - Chapter 9, p. 249-279 Subduction Zones
Hamilton, W.B., 1988, Plate tectonics and island arcs: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v. 100, p. 1503-1527. {This is a landmark paper; lots of insight in there. Come with questions.}
Thursday, February 19, 2009
Journal Watch: Ocean Crust/Ridges
Heat Flow Reading
*Sclater, J. G., Jaupart, C. and Galson, D., 1980, The heat flow through oceanic and continental crust and the heat loss of the Earth: Reviews of Geophysics and Space Physics, v. 18, p. 269‑311. {Just focus on first ten pages concerning oceanic heat flow for now...}
For general reading:
Chapman, D., S. and Pollack, H. N., 1975, Golbal heat flow: a new look: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, v. 28, p. 23‑32.
Pollack, H. N. and Chapman, D. S., 1977, The flow of heat from the Earth's interior: Scientific American, v. 237,
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Question 1a,b,c Due.
Reading Ocean Crust and Ridges
*K-K and V: p. 24-29 Ocean Crust
*K-K and V: Chapter 6 Ocean Ridges
Solomon, S. C. & Toomey, D. R., 1992. The structure of mid-ocean ridges. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences, 20, 329-364.
Wilson, Chapter 5, Mid-ocean ridges
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Journal Watch: Mantle