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Date |
Topic |
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Part 1 |
Reading: Van der Voo, Ch 1,3; suggested reading, Cox and Hart, Ch 1 |
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05 September 07 |
Introduction |
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10 September 07 |
Reference Frames, Layers of the Earth, Rheology |
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12 September 07 |
Plate Boundaries, Euler Poles, Marine Magnetic Anomalies, Rises |
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14 September 07 |
Introduction to Unix |
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17 September 07 |
The Geomagnetic Time Scale, Sea Floor Spreading, Trenches and Fracture Zones |
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19 September 07 |
Plate velocities |
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21 September 07 |
Introduction to Generic Mapping Tools |
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Part 2 |
Reading Van der Voo, Ch 2,4; suggested reading, Butler, Chs 5 and 6 |
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24 September 07 |
The Earth's Magnetic Field |
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26 September 07 |
Directions and Poles |
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28 September 07 |
Transformations |
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01 October 07 |
Demagnetization Techniques |
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03 October 07 |
Apparent Polar Wander Paths |
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05 October 07 |
Some scripting in Unix – how to manipulate data to get what you want |
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08 October 07 |
FALL BREAK |
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10 October 07 |
Back to Euler Poles |
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12 October 07 |
GMT plotting – maps |
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15 October 07 |
Stage Poles |
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17 October 07 |
Reconstruction Poles |
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19 October 07 |
Plotting APWs in GMT, Paleolatitude calculations, and fitting small circles |
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Part 3 |
Reading Van der Voo Ch. 5,6 outside reading |
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22 October 07 |
The Atlantic Basin |
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24 October 07 |
The Atlantic Basin continued |
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26 October 07 |
Closing the Atlantic |
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29 October 07 |
APWs for the Atlantic adjacent continents |
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31 October 07 |
Besse and Courtillot – APW for the last 200 million years |
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02 November 07 |
Closing the Atlantic |
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05 November 07 |
Paleogeography |
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07 November 07 |
Paleogeography |
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09 November 07 |
Plate Circuits |
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Part 4 |
Outside reading |
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12 November 07 |
The Pacific Basin |
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14 November 07 |
SAM poles, MMA poles, and colatitudes |
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16 November 07 |
Hotspot Tracks |
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19 November 07 |
Motion of the Pacific |
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21 November 07 |
NO CLASS TODAY |
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22-23 Nov |
THANKSGIVING |
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26 November 07 |
Hotspot Reference Frame |
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28 November 07 |
True Polar Wander? |
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30 November 07 |
Project Time |
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Part 5 |
Reading Van der Voo Ch. 8 |
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03 December 07 |
Iapetus Ocean |
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05 December 07 |
Late Proterozoic APWs |
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07 December 07 |
Project Time |
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10-15 Dec |
AGU WEEK – WORK ON YOUR PROJECTS! |
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17 December 07 |
Final projects are due no later than 5 pm |
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