EESC W4947 - Plate Tectonics        -        Spring 2007
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Date Session Topic Lecturer
Jan-16-07 1 Firsthand Historical Account Pitman and Ryan
Jan-18-07 2 Continents in Motion Pitman
Jan-23-07 3 Magnetic Stripes on the Ocean Floor Pitman
Jan-25-07 5 Working with Paleomagnetic Poles Pitman
Jan-30-07 4 Visualizing Seafloor Spreading Ryan and Pitman
Feb-01-07 6 Tectonics on a Sphere: Euler Poles Pitman
Feb-06-07 7 Evolution of Triple Junctions Pitman
Feb-08-07 8 Breaking Apart Continents Pitman
Feb-13-07 9 Imaging Earth's Interior Pitman
Feb-15-07 10 Mantle Plumes and Convection Pitman
Feb-20-07 11 Volcanism on a Giant Scale Ryan
Feb-22-07 12 World Encircling Mid-Ocean Ridge Ryan
Feb-27-07 13 Giving Birth to the Ocean Crust Ryan
Mar-01-07 14 Lessons from Transform Faults Ryan
Mar-06-07 15 Segmentation and Propagation Ryan
Mar-08-07 example MID TERM EXAM TA
Mar-20-07 16 Plate Stratigraphy from Ocean Drilling Ryan
Mar-22-07 17 Plates in Collision Ryan
Mar-27-07 18 Subduction Accretion vs Erosion Ryan
Mar-29-07 19 Clues from the Hotspot Reference Frame Ryan
Apr-03-07 20 Plates as the Engines Ryan
Apr-05-07 21 Plates as the Passengers Ryan
Apr-10-07 22 Reconstructing Western North America Pitman
Apr-12-07 23 From Tethys to the Alps Ryan
Apr-17-07 24 Formation of Earth and Moon Ryan
Apr-19-07 25 Evolution of the Continents Ryan
Apr-24-07 26 Plate Tectonics on the Early Earth Ryan
Apr-26-07 27 Plate Tectonics on Venus and Mars? Ryan
May-??-07 FINAL EXAM TA