Topics:

• Theme B - Plate Tectonics and Seafloor Geography

Required Readings:

• Textbook
  • Chapters 3 and 4
• PowerPoints
  • Chapter 3 (.pdf file)
  • Chapter 4 (.pdf file)
• Other Readings
  • Required: http://pubs.usgs.gov/gip/dynamic/dynamic.html
  • Optional A: http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/animate/pltecan.html
  • Optional B: http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/usgsnps/pltec/pltec1.html
  • Optional C: http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/oceanography_how_deep.html
  • Optional D: http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/1995/Oct/hour1_102095.html
  • Optional E: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/1999/vents.shtml

Lab Due:

• Lab #2: Seafloor Spreading, Plate Tectonics, and Marine Geography
  • Due this Saturday
  • Lab #2 Handout (in your Lab Manual)
  • Supplementary/color images for Lab #2 (.pdf file)
  • Lab #2 Hints (.html page)

Quiz/Exam Due:

• Quiz #2
  • Due this Saturday
  • Chapters 3 and 4 and related material

Other Assignments Due:

• Week 2 Q&A Discussion Assignment (.pdf file)
  • Part A - Due this Saturday
    • Extra credit - Virtual Quake - Attach your Certificate of Completion to your Part A post
  • Part B - Due next Wednesday
• Scientific Method Assignment
  • Assignment instructions (.html page)
    • Also read: http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/pseudosci.html and http://teacher.nsrl.rochester.edu/phy_labs/AppendixE/AppendixE.html
  • Due this Saturday

• Download and/or print this Geologic Time Scale file. You will refer to it throughout the course, so put it in a handy location.
• Here's a good resource on how radiometric dating works (pardon the references to Christianity; he's responding to some of the inaccurate objections to the science).