Dynamics of the mantle and lithosphere

Spring Semester 2017
651-4008-00 G


Lecturer:       A. Rozel (antoine.rozel@erdw.ethz.ch); NO Bld, rm H9.3

Location:      NO F39
                     Sonneggstrasse 5
                     ETH Zentrum

Dates:         
         Monday         10:00-12:00     [20.02; 27.02; 06.03; 13.03; 20.03; 27.03; 03.04]
         Thursday       08:00-10:00     [23.02; 02.03; 09.03; 16.03; 23.03; 30.03; 06.04]



Objectives:       
The goal of this course is to obtain a detailed understanding of the physical properties, structure, and dynamical behavior of the mantle-lithosphere system, focusing mainly on Earth but also discussing how these processes occur differently in other terrestrial planets.



Lectures:
Course outline
Thermal structure
Mantle dynamics (I)
Rheology of the Earth (I)
Mantle dynamics (II)
Subduction dynamics
Constraining the Rheology of the Earth
Recent geodynamic topics (paper summaries)


Practicals:
Practical 1
Practical 2
Practical 3
Practical 4

Resources:
Notes: thermal structure
Notes: compositional structure
Notes: continuum mechanics
Notes: rheology
Notes: fluid dynamics
Notes: plumes
Notes: tectonics
MATLAB: Introduction
MATLAB: Introduction script
MATLAB: Plotting example