MGG 679 - Plate Tectonics, Prof. Christopher Harrison

Outline:

1. Types of plate boundaries
   
2. Present day plate motions
   
3. Finite plate motions
   
4. Paleomagnetism
   
5. Hot Spots
   
6. Analysis of marine magnetic anomalies to determine sources, skewness and pole positions
   
7. Lithospheric cooling and heat flow, and models of plate subsidence
   
8. Sea level change produced by plate tectonic and other processes
   
9. Erosion and mountain building and the continental part of the hypsographic curve
   
10. The oceanic part of the hypsographic curve