EPSC 644 – section 3

The Deep Earth

Francis, Hynes, Jensen, and Minarik

All papers are available as pdf’s at http://eps.mcgill.ca/~courses/c644/The%20Deep%20Earth/

Other resources are available via the links shown (this file is also on the website).

  1. Cosmology (week of November 7th)
    2.

    Brown, et al.; 2000: The fall, recovery, orbit, and composition of the Tagish Lake meteorite: a new type of carbonaceous chondrite. Science 290, 320-325.

    http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/media/2004-2005/mp3/qq-2005-01-15e.mp3

    http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/01-02/mp3/qq120102e.mp3

    G. Jeffrey Taylor (1998) Origin of the Earth and Moon: http://www.psrd.hawaii.edu/Dec98/OriginEarthMoon.html

    A moon-forming impact and accretion movie: http://yso.mtk.nao.ac.jp/~kokubo/moon/kit/movie.html

  2. The Mantle (week of November 14th)

    3. Stevenson, D.; 2004: Inside history in depth. Nature 428, 476-477.

    Davies, G.F.; 1995: Punctuated tectonic evolution of the Earth. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 136, 363-379.

  3. The Core (week of November 21st)

    4. Brandon, A.D. & Walker, R.J.; 2005: the debate over core-mantle interaction. Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. Frontiers 232, 211-225.

    Buffet, B.A.; 2000: Earth’s core and the geodynamo. Science 288, 2007-2012.

    Lee, K.K.M. and Jeanloz, R.; 2003: High-pressure alloying of potassium and iron: radioactivity in the Earth’s core? Geophys. Res. Lett. 30, 2212-2216.

    http://www.cbc.ca/quirks/archives/02-03/mp3/qq170503c.mp3

  4. Debates (week of November 28th)

Two debates of 1 hour duration will be held, each consisting of two teams of two students. A list of possible questions for debate will be circulated during the first session on cosmology. Students will be divided into two groups of four by straw vote; each group will select its question for debate and decide who is pro and con.

Marks will be based both on performance in the debate and on general contribution to discussion during the first three sessions.