Resources on this page apply to all sections of the course

• Course objectives online
• Recent tests and quizzes in HTML format.
• Copies of old tests and quizzes in Windows Help format for Windows 95 or Windows NT.
• Lab handouts
  • MGT
  • Radar altimeter and side scan sonar
  • T-S diagrams, and SST annual cycle
  • Geostrophic currents
  • Tides
• Tutorial in Windows Help format for Windows 95 or Windows NT on topics covered in the course contains information on many of the labs in the course, and a series of maps showing the locations for which you are responsible. This file is about 350 kb in size, and includes the YP instruments. 
• Guidelines for the paper.
• Summary of YP686 data for the fall data summary project

1. Gazetteer. Locate the place names for which you will be responsible.  Download and then run this setup program. It will also do some plate tectonics animations. The file to download is about 1.4Mb in size. Note that the tutorial mentioned above has some canned maps in it.

• Plot all the locations, which might make the map busy. You can blow up a part of the map with the seventh icon on the toolbar.
• Plot individual locations in a color of your choice.
• Plot a file with a particular type of feature (currents, seas, straits, plate tectonics.
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1. Geology Data Files.  As an option, the gazetteer program can show many features of plate tectonics (boundaries, fracture zones, magnetic anomalies, and earthquakes).  Download and then run this setup program. to copy the data to your hard disk.  The file to download is about 3 Mb in size.

• Copies of the lab programs used:
  • MGT-Marine Geophysics Trainer for plate tectonics. This program and data files are very large. You should not have to download this program unless you want extra practice after doing the lab.
  • TS-PLOT for temperature-salinity diagrams, and geostrophic currents.  This is a zipped directory with the program and the data files.  It is likely that to run this you will have to install MICRODEM first, which is the base program from you can can run MGT.

Links to Outside web pages:

• The Gulf Stream  This site was developed by a mid in the department.

• Professor Guth