GEOL 201:  Internal Heat and Dynamics
Syllabus
"Captain, the most elementary and valuable statement in science, the
          beginning of wisdom, is 'I do not know.'"

                                                                     - Lt. Commander Data

 WEEK 
 DATE 
  
 LECTURE TOPIC 
  READING 
     
THE SOLAR SYSTEM & GEOLOGIC TIME
  
1  September  27 (1)  Introduction Chap. 1 & 22
    29 (2)  Origin & differentiation of the solar system  
  October 1 (3)  Overview of planetary evolution  
2   4 (4)  Early planetary evolution and Earth history Chap. 1 & 2
    6 (5)  Rock record; geologic time  
    8 (6)  Geologic time and evolution of life (7)  
     
THE STRUCTURE OF THE DEEP EARTH
  
3   11 (7)  Heat flow:  Mechanisms and properties (8) Chap. 14 
    13 (8)  Heat flow:  The Earth's geotherm (9)  
    15 (9) Oceanic lithosphere and thermal boundary layers  
4   18 (10) Heat Flow continued and completed  
    20
 (11) EXAM 1
  
    22 (12) Seismology:  Introduction Chap. 18 
5   25 (13)  Introduction to Seismology (continued)  
    27 (14)  Review of EXAM 1  
     
TECTONICS:  GLOBAL, REGIONAL & LOCAL
  
    29 (15) Guest Lecture:  David Jousselin  (Oman ophiolite) Chap. 20 & 21
6 November 1 (16) Guest Lecture:  David Jousselin  (Oman and seismology)   
    3 (17) Global plate tectonics:  Introduction  
    5 (18) Global plate tectonics:  Kinematics  
7   8 (19) Kinematics of Western U.S (Movies too) Chap. 21 & 4
    10 (20) Subduction Zones   
    12 (21)   
8   15 (22) Structure and Rock Types of Continental Margins Chap 20 & 21 
    17 (23) Regional Deformation  
    19
(22) EXAM 2
  
     
VOLCANISM
  
9   22
Igneous rocks & magmas
 Chap. 15/16
    24
  Seismic imaging of magmatic systems
  
    26
THANKSGIVING VACATION
10   29
(21) Gravity and magnetics
 Chap. 19
  December  1    
    3
EXAM 3
  
Instructor: Doug Toomey Teaching Assistants:  Robin Beebee and David Adams