Reading from Fall 2006 Physics and Chemistry class

Reading week of 28 August:

• Brown and Mussett, Chapts. 4,5
• Drake (Geochimica Cosmochimica Acta, 64, p. 2362-2370, 2000)

week of Sept. 4 :

• Halliday, Space Science Reviews 92: 355–370, 2000 (pdf)
• Karato, Ch. 6

week of Sept. 11 :

• Karato, Ch. 4 (some useful stuff in Ch. 1 too)
• handout on stress/strain
• class discussion:
  • Halliday, Hf-W Chronometry and inner solar system accretion rates, Space Science Reviews 92: 355–370, 2000 (pdf).
  • Richter, F. M., Kelvin and the age of the Earth, J. Geology, 94, 395-401, 1986. (copy in mailroom)

week of Sept. 18:

• Class Discussion:
  • Murakami, M., K. Hirose, K. Kawamura, N. Sata, and Y. Ohishi, Post-Perovskite Phase Transition in MgSiO₃, Science, 304, 855-858, 2004 (pdf).
  • Garnero, E. J., A new paradigm for Earth's core-mantle boundary, Science, 304, 834-836, 2004(pdf) .
  • Wood, B. J., The effect of H₂O on the 410-kilometer seismic discontinuity, Science, 268, 74-76, 1995 (pdf)
• Class reading- Karato, Ch. 4 (mainly) + some Ch. 1 + handout

week of Sept. 25:

• Class Discussion:
  • Zerr, A., A. Diegeler, R. Boehler, Solidus of Earth's Deep Mantle, Science, 281, 243-246, 1998
  • Crosby, A. G., D. MacKenzie, J. G. Sclater, The relationship between depth, age and gravity in the oceans, J. Geophys. Int., 166, 553-573, 2006.
• Class reading- Karato, Chapt. 2, 4

week of Oct. 16:

• Class Discussion:
  • R. Montelli, G. Nolet, F. A. Dahlen, G. Masters, E. R. Engdahl, and S.-H. Hung, Finite-Frequency Tomography Reveals a Variety of Plumes in the Mantle, Science 303, 338-343, 2004.
  • Ren, Z.-Y., S. Ingle, E. Takahashi, N. Hirano, T. Hirata, Nature, 436, 837-841, 2005 .
• Reading- review Karato, Ch. 4, handout

week of Oct. 23:

• 23- Continental Lithosphere (Overview)
• 25- Tectosphere observations
• 27- Class Discusssion:
  • Jordan, T. H., The Deep Structure of Continents, Scientific American, 92-107, 1979. (copy in mailroom)
  • Asimow, P. D., and C. H. Langmuir, The importance of water to oceanic melting regimes, Nature, 421, 815-820, 2003
• Reading- Karato, Chapt. 2; Brown and Mussett, Chapt. 10

week of Oct. 30:

• 30- Continental Mantle Lithosphere (Chemical Perspective), geothermometers and geobarometers
• 1- Continental heat flow (heat production variations, “reduced” heat flow and elastic plate thicknesses)
• 3- Discussion:
  • Lee, C-T, Q. Yin, R. L. Rudnick, and S. B. Jacobsen, Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States, Nature, 411, 69-73, 2001.
  • Gung, Y., M. Panning, and B. Romanowicz, Global anisotropy and the thickness of the continents, Nature, 422, 707-711, 2003.
• Reading: Handouts. Brown and Mussett, Chapt. 10&11

week of Nov. 6:

• 6- Continental Lithosphere (finish), Continental Crust – Archean vs. Proterozoic vs. Phanerozoic
• 8- Mechanical lithosphere
• 10- Discussion:
  • Jackson, J., Strength of the continental lithosphere: Time to abandon the jelly sandwich?, GSA Today, 12, 4-9, Sept. 2002
  • Class, C., and A. P. le Roex, Continental material in the shallow oceanic mantle-How does it get there?, Geology, 34, 129-132, doi: 10.1130/G21943.1, 2006.
• Reading- Stüwe, Ch. 5

week of Nov. 13:

• 13- Internal differentiation of Crust (Lower vs. Upper Crust)
• 15- Strength of continental lithosphere (Brace/Goetze strength profiles), forces of continental deformation
• 17 Discussion:
  • Flowers, R. M., L. H. Royden, and S. A. Bowring (2004), Isostatic constraints on the assembly, stabilization, and preservation of cratonic lithosphere, Geology, 32 (4), 321-324.
  • Coogan, L. A., and R. W. Hinton (2006), Do the trace element compositions of detrital zircons require Hadean continental crust?, Geology, 34 (8), 633-636.
• Reading- Handout

week of Nov. 20: Holiday

Week of Nov. 27:

• 27- Magma Production in Continental Lithosphere (basalts)
• 29- Physics of magmatism
• 1- Discussion-
  • Silver, P. G., M. D. Behn, K. Kelley, M. Schmitz, and B. Savage, Understanding cratonal flood basalts, Earth Plan. Sci. Letts., 245, 190-201, 2006.
  • Glazner, A. F., J. M. Bartley, D. S. Coleman, W. Gray, and R. Z. Taylor, Are plutons assembled over millions of years by amalgamation from small magma chambers?, GSA Today, 14 (4/5), 4-11, 2004.
  • Burov, E., C. Jaupert, and L. Guillou-Frottier, Ascent and emplacement of buoyant magma bodies in brittle-ductile upper crust, Jour. Geophys. Res., 108 (B4), 2177, doi:10.1029/2002JB001904, 2003
    
• Reading- Handouts, parts of Turcotte and Schubert (9-11, 6-12, 6-2 to 6-6)

Schedules from the course:

• Aug 28- Introduction
• Aug 30- Basic chemical principles
• Sept 1- Earth accretion and early differentiation
• Sept 6-Accretion and partitioning of elements
• Sept. 8 -Geophysics of the core
• Sept. 11- Stress and strain
• Sept. 13- Convection in the mantle
• Sept. 15-class discussion
• Sept. 18-mantle phase transitions
• Sept. 20-seismological constraints on phase transitions
• Sept. 22-class discussion
• Sept. 25- Oceanic Lithosphere -thermal subsidence and heat - flow
• Sept. 27- How mantle melts (Divergent plate margins, generation of oceanic crust)
• Sept. 29- Class Discussion:
• Oct. 2- Convergent Plate Margins
• Oct. 4- Forces driving plate motion
• Oct. 6- Fate of Subducted Slabs-Chemical Perspective
• Oct. 9-no class
• Oct. 11-midterm
• Oct. 13- Forces resisting plate motion and geophysical constraints on the fate of slabs
• Oct. 16-ocean island basalts
• Oct. 18-plumes (geophysics) and plate reconstructions
• Oct. 20-class discussion
• Oct 23-ocean island basalts, helium and plumes
• Oct. 25-continental lithosphere intro and seismic constraints

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