NOC:Tectonics and Geodynamics

Lecture 1 - The Beginnings - Continental Drift Theory

Lecture 2 - Demise of the Continental Drift Theory

Lecture 3 - The Sea Floor

Lecture 4 - Sea Floor Spreading

Lecture 5 - Rigid Plates on the Earths Surface

Lecture 6 - How plates would move on a flat Earth

Lecture 7 - Three Plate Motions on a Flat Earth

Lecture 8 - Plate boundary movements on a Flat Earth

Lecture 9 - Triple junctions on a flat Earth – Part I

Lecture 10 - Triple junctions on a flat Earth – Part II

Lecture 11 - Evaluation of selected triple junctions

Lecture 12 - Plate Motions on a Spherical Earth

Lecture 13 - Calculating Relative Motions at Plate Boundaries

Lecture 14 - Combination of Rotation Vectors

Lecture 15 - Finite and Infinitesimal, Rotations, and Absolute Plate Motions

Lecture 16 - The Magnetic Field of the Earth

Lecture 17 - Calculating the Earth's Magnetic Field

Lecture 18 - Calculating the Earth's Magnetic Field (Continued...)

Lecture 19 - Magnetizing rocks and Magnetic Anomalies

Lecture 20 - The Geomagnetic Reversal Time Scale

Lecture 21 - History of the Oceans

Lecture 22 - It's all About Heat!

Lecture 23 - The 1-D Heat Conduction Equation

Lecture 24 - More on the Heat Conduction Equation

Lecture 25 - The Equilibrium Geotherm

Lecture 26 - Conditions affecting the equilibrium geotherm

Lecture 27 - Continental Heat Flow and Heat Flow Provinces

Lecture 28 - Heat Flow Provinces in Crust with active erosion

Lecture 29 - The thermal Gradient in the Earth's Mantle

Lecture 30 - Thermal Structure of the Earth's Mantle

Lecture 31 - Oceanic Heat Flow

Lecture 32 - Cooling of the Oceanic Lithosphere - I

Lecture 33 - Cooling of the Oceanic Lithosphere - II

Lecture 34 - Cooling of the Oceanic Lithosphere and Bathymetric Depth

Lecture 35 - Forces acting on Plates - Driving and Resistive Forces

Lecture 36 - The breakings of continents - I

Lecture 37 - The breakings of continents - II

Lecture 38 - Formation of passive continental margins

Lecture 39 - Stretching the Lithosphere

Lecture 40 - Consequences of continental Lithospheric stretching

Lecture 41 - Formation of extensional basins and continental margins

Lecture 42 - The Mid-Oceanic Ridge Rift Sysem

Lecture 43 - Structure of the ocean crust and the ophiolite model

Lecture 44 - Mantle Petrology

Lecture 45 - Melting of the mantle at Mid-Oceanic ridges

Lecture 46 - Conservative Plate Boundaries - Transform Faults

Lecture 47 - Oceanic Transform Faults - Morphology and Crustal Structure

Lecture 48 - Explaining the Idiosyncrasies of Oceanic Transforms - I

Lecture 49 - Explaining the Idiosyncrasies of Oceanic Transforms - II

Lecture 50 - Continental Transforms

Lecture 51 - Convergent Margins

Lecture 52 - Geophysical characteristics of subduction zones

Lecture 53 - The arc basement and accretionary prism

Lecture 54 - Mechanics of Thrust sheets and accretionary prism process - I

Lecture 55 - Mechanics of Thrust sheets and accretionary prism process - II

Lecture 56 - Arcuate trenches, outer swells and back-arc basins

Lecture 57 - Magmatism associated with subduction zones

Lecture 58 - Collisions!

Lecture 59 - Continent-Continent collisions and Formation of Suture Zones

Lecture 60 - Did Plate tectonics operate on Early Earth