Reading from Fall 2008 Physics and Chemistry class

 

Reading week of 25 August:

week of Sept. 1 :

week of Sept. 8 :

week of Sept. 15:

week of Sept. 22:

Oceanic Lithosphere (Physical perspective-JONES)-thermal subsidence and heat - flow

Reading-  Seafloor subsidence handout, Anderson, Chapt. 4 pp. 35-40, Ch. 11 pp. 134-5, Ch. 26 pp. 333-338, 346-348

24- Mantle derived magmas and Earth structure -FARMER)

Reading Ch. 14 esp. pp. 168-173, 187-188, 17, 26

26- Class Discussion:

Forsyth, D. W., Scheirer, D. S., Webb, S. C., Dorman, L. M., Orcutt, J. A., Harding, A. J., Blackman, D. K., Morgan, J. P., Detrick, R. S., Shen, Y., Wolfe, C. J., Canales, J. P., Toomey, D. R., Sheehan, A. F., Solomon, S. C., Wilcock, W. S. D., and Team, M. S., Imaging the deep seismic structure beneath a mid-ocean ridge: The MELT experiment: Science, 280 (5367), p. 1215-1218, 1998.

Asimow, P. D., and C. H. Langmuir, The importance of water to oceanic melting regimes, Nature, 421, 815-820, 2003
(Karato Ch. 2, 4)

week of Oct 13:

17- Discussion:

Courtier, A. M., and 14 others, Correlation of seismic and petrologic thermometers suggests deep thermal anomalies beneath hotspots. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 264 (1-2) pp. 308-316, doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.10.003, 2007.

Class, C., and S. L. Goldstein, Evolution of helium isotopes in the Earth's mantle, Nature, 436, 1107-1112, doi: 10.1038/nature03930, 2005

FOR REFERENCE (if interested)

Montelli, R., Nolet, G., Dahlen, F.A., Masters, G., Engdahl, E.R., and Hung, S.H., Finite-frequency tomography reveals a variety of plumes in the mantle. Science, 303 (5656) pp. 338-343, 2004

Boschi, L., Becker, T., and Steinberger, B. Mantle plumes: Dynamic models and seismic images. Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. (2007) vol. 8 (10) art num. Q10006, doi:10.1029/2007GC001733, 2007.

week of Oct. 20:

24- Class Discusssion:

Conrad, C., and Lithgow-Bertelloni, C., Influence of continental roots and asthenosphere on plate-mantle coupling. Geophys. Res. Lett., 33 (5), L05312, pp. 4, 2006

Lee, C. T. A., Lenardic, A., Cooper, C. M., Niu, F. L., and Levander, A., The role of chemical boundary layers in regulating the thickness of continental and oceanic thermal boundary layers: Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 230, no. 3-4, p. 379-395, 2005. and there is a correction to figure 9

Reading- Anderson , Ch. 8; Brown and Mussett, Chapt. 10, handout (Karato, Chapt. 2)

week of Oct. 27:

31- Discussion:

Lee, C.T., Yin, Q.Z., Rudnick, R.L., and Jacobsen, S.B.,, Preservation of ancient and fertile lithospheric mantle beneath the southwestern United States: Nature, 411, p. 69-73. 2001

King, S.D., Archean cratons and mantle dynamics: Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 234, p. 1-14.

Reading- Handouts. Anderson, Ch. 26 Brown and Mussett, Chapt. 10&11.

week of Nov. 3:

Reading-  Handouts, Stüwe, Ch. 5

week of Nov. 10:

14 Discussion:

Burov, E.B., and Watts, A.B., 2006, The long-term strength of continental lithosphere: “jelly sandwich” or “crème brûlée”?: GSA Today, v. 16, p. 4-10.

For reference for above: Jackson, J., 2002, Strength of the continental lithosphere: Time to abandon the jelly sandwich?: GSA Today, v. 12, p. 4-10.

Moser, D.E., Bowman, J.R., Wooden, J., Valley, J.W., Mazdab, F., and Kita, N., 2008, Creation of a continent recorded in zircon zoning: Geology, v. 36, p. 239-242.

For reference for above:Harley, S.L., and Kelly, N.M., 2007, Zircon - Tiny but timely: Elements, v. 3, p. 13-18.

Reading-  Handouts

week of Nov. 17:

21 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.

Buck, W. R., Einarsson, P., and Brandsdottir, B., 2006, Tectonic stress and magma chamber size as controls on dike propagation: Constraints from the 1975-1984 Krafla rifting episode: Journal of Geophysical Research-Solid Earth, v. 111, no. B12,

Reading-  Handouts, Farmer chapter from Treatise on Geochemistry, parts of Turcotte and Schubert (9-11, 6-12, 6-2 to 6-6)

 

 


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