Oceanography 540
Lecture Schedule
Autumn 2002

Monday	Wednesday	Thursday
Sep 30 1--Course Overview; Geologic Overview, Topography and Age of the Ocean Basins	Oct 2 2--Marine Sedimentation, Sediment Thickness and Type	Oct 3 3--Conduction; Conductive Plate Model
Oct 7 4--Subsidence of the Lithosphere, Sea Level	Oct 9 5--Mantle Flow and Crustal Generation	Oct 10 6--Phase Diagrams
Oct 14 7--Petrological Relationships in Generating Ocean Crust	Oct 16 8--Convection and Rayleigh Criteria	Oct 17 9--Porous Media
Oct 21 10--Convective Flow in Porous Media	Oct 23 No Class	Oct 24 11--Distribution of Convective Heat Flux
Oct 28 12--Determining Hydrothermal Fluxes	Oct 30 13--Determining Hydrothermal Fluxes (continued)	Oct 31 14--Time Series Analysis
Nov 4 15--Time Series Analysis (continued)	Nov 6 16--Sediment Accumulation	Nov 7 17--Sediment Diagenesis
Nov 11 Veterans Day	Nov 13 18--Applying Matlab to Core Analysis	Nov 14 19--Oxygen and Carbon Isotopes as Paleotracers
Nov 18 No Class--Faculty Retreat	Nov 20 20--Orbital Geometry	Nov 21 21--Pleistocene Records: Frequency Domain, Time Domain, Phase Relationships
Nov 25 22--Pleistocene Glacial-Interglacial Cycles	Nov 27 23--Pleistocene Responses: The 100 ky Problem	Nov 28 Thanksgiving
Dec 2 24--Boundary Shear	Dec 4 25--Settling of Particles; Threshold of Motion	Dec 5 26--Particle Collisions and Aggregation
Dec 9 27--Suspended Load	Dec 11 28--Sea Level in the Frequency Domain