SO461--Geological Oceanography

Course Admin

Publishers web site for book: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/kearey/

Current Events Links:

• http://www.marine-geo.org/ 

MICRODEM download

Helpful Documents

• Map of the plates (from http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/earthq1/where.html) 
• Blank stereo net (Word Document)

Google Earth files

• Plate boundaries and recent earthquakes at http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/catalogs/eqs7day-depth.kmz. 
• DSDP/ODP/IODP site locations.  http://www.iodp.org/borehole-map.  The link is halfway down the page, and it will be initially slow.   There are links to the publications on line.  The colors refer to the phases of the drilling program. If this file is too slow to open, get the locally cached version at http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/so461web/DSDP-ODP-IODP Drilled Holes.kmz
• Mesozoic crust: http://www.usna.edu/Users/oceano/pguth/website/so461web/Mesozoic_sea_floor.kmz
• Sediment thickness:  http://www.gm.univ-montp2.fr/splitting/DB/public/Sediments.kmz
• Marine magnetic anomalies: http://www.geology.sdsu.edu/kmlgeology/kmz/magnetic_anomalies/magnetic_anomalies.html
• Age of seafloor:
  • Better option: http://nachon.free.fr/GE/Welcome.html
  • Alternate 1: http://sos.noaa.gov/Datasets/dataset.php?id=118
  • Alternate 2: ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/KMZ/Global_Crustal_Ages.kmz  You must zoom in for the tiles to appear, and they can be slow.  The numbers on the lines between the colors are the ages in millions of years.

Help for paper(s)

• Guidelines for papers Note that your papers, although short, will follow this format. In particular you need proper citations, and a correctly formatted references cited list.  Your labs will correctly format figures and tables.
• Word tips

• rain

Faculty teaching SO461:

• Professor Guth

Last Update: 9/3/2013