Plate Tectonics: Geological Aspects

Program Second Semester 1998:

	Wed Lecture 9.30 - 10.30	Wed Practical/Lecture 11.30 - 1.30
Week 6	Mantle Topology & Mineralogy ( L)	Mid-Ocean Ridge Processes ( L)
Week 7	Rifting and Wilson Cycle ( L)	Practical: Pacific Ocean
Week 8	Extension & Sedimentary Basins ( L)	Subduction and Island Arcs ( L) Practical: Mini practical
Week 9	Active Margins & Accretion ( L)	Practical: Plate model exercises (1)
Week 10	Plumes & plateaus ( L) Collision; plate tectonics & Earth evolution	Practical: Plate model exercises (2)

Useful General References:

PRESS, F. & SIEVER, R. 1998. Understanding Earth (2^nd Ed.) p.504–535 + CD-rom & Internet link: www.whfreeman.com/understandingearth

KEARY, P. & VINE, F.J. 1991. Global Tectonics. Blackwell Scientific Publ., 302pp.. (2^nd Edition now out)

Plate Tectonics: This works as a result of hot mantle asthenosphere ascending beneath mid-ocean ridges to form the plates. These plates then subside into the mantle again at subduction zones, pulled by the excess density of the mafic ocean crust, which transform to eclogite.