3 credits - Fall 2019 - Thursdays 3:00-4:30 and Fridays 1:00-2:30 in FDA 232
SKIP TO: Evaluation --- Instructions for leading discussion --- Schedule --- Morin Shear Zone Field Trip --- Fort Foster Field Trip --- Methods Talks List --- Research Projects Topics List
Thursday meeting will be a discussion session focused around 1-2 journal articles, with discussions run by students. Friday meetings will be lectures or student presentations on practical applications and methods, collaborating and presentations of project results.
The course includes field trips (October 11-15 to the Norumbega Shear Zone, Maine and October 8 to the Morin Shear Zone, Quebec, along with EPSC303). The field trip(s) are not mandatory but will contribute substantially to student learning. Data collected on both field trips will form the basis of class projects.
Pre-requisites: structural geology. Background in tectonics, metamorphic geology, and geophysics would be useful.
Students will be able to identify and describe rock fabrics that form during deformation and able to relate these fabrics to pressure and temperature conditions, and therefore, to tectonic context and depth in the Earth where deformation occurred.
McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous people whose footsteps have marked this territory on which peoples of the world now gather.
| 10% | 1 page + figures for field trip handout | |
| 10% | Wikipedia Editing | |
| 25% | Reading Seminar (meets weekly) Discussion leader will provide 2 page handout (including figures) |
10% Participation when others are leading |
| 15% Leading discussion and 2 pg paper summary | ||
| 20% | Give a lesson: Teach the other students about some research method of your choice. This could be a technique you use in your own research, or something you have never done but would like to learn. You can demonstrate the method, teach a lesson, or give a lecture about it illustrated with examples. You will have 30 minutes for this lesson. |
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| 35% | Individual Research Project could involve microstructural studies, analytical studies, or modeling. Data and samples collected on the class field trip may be used for the project. | 20% Paper Template here If you are a LaTeX user, download the whole contents of this folder. If not, just download the pdf and use as a guideline. |
| 5% Peer reviews written for other students | ||
| 10% Presentation (20 minutes) | ||
| Week | Date | Topic | Reading | Discussion Leader | Due Dates / Goals |
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| 1 | Thurs Sept 5 | Course intro/planning | Set up presentation schedule | Christie | Settle on final schedule, future assignments |
| Fri Sept 6 | Introduction of Wikipedia Project | Christie | |||
| 2 | Thurs Sept 12 | Effects of Crustal Rheology | Ranalli, 2000, Rheology of the crust and its role in tectonic reactivation. Journal of Geodynamics v. 30, 3-15. | Christie | Students report back on Wikipedia Plans |
| Fri Sept 13 | Methods talks (2 x 20 min + discussion) | Arvid - EBSD basic theory, EBSD techniques and a case study Visit to SEM |
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| 3 | Thurs Sept 19 | State of Research in Tectonics/Deformation | Huntington et al. (2017), Challenges and Opportunities for Research in Tectonics: Understanding deformation and the processes that link Earth systems, from geologic time to human time. A community vision document submitted to the U.S. National Science Foundation. University of Washington. Chapters 2 and 3 Only. | Arvid | |
| Fri Sept 20 | NO MEETING - EPS RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM | ||||
| 4 | Thurs Sept 26 | Very hot rocks | Zhou et al. (2017) An experimental study on creep of partially molten granulite under high temperature and wet conditions Journal of Asian Earth Sciences v. 139, 15-29 | Jenna | |
| Fri Sept 27 | CANCELLED FOR CLIMATE STRIKE! MEET TO MAKE SIGNS IN EPS LOUNGE AT 11:30, THEN MARCH, THEN RETURN FOR WINE+CHEESE | ||||
| 5 | Thurs Oct 3 | Shear Zones | Fossen and Cavalcante (2017) Shear zones -- a review Earth-Science Reviews v. 171, 434-455 | Hervé | |
| Fri Oct 4 | Methods talks (2 x 20 min + discussion) | Jenna - InSAR | |||
| Look at some hand samples of High Strain Rocks | |||||
| 6 | Tues Oct 8 | Morin Shear Zone Field Trip with Jamie Kirkpatrick and EPSC303 | See List Below | ||
| Thurs Oct 10 | Fort Foster Brittle Zone | Swanson (2006) Pseudotachylyte-bearing strike-slip faults in mylonitic host rocks, Fort Foster Brittle Zone, Kittery, Maine. in: Abercrombie et al. (eds), Earthquakes: Radiated Energy and the Physics of Faulting. AGU Monograph 170 p. 167-179 | Maggie | ||
| Fri Oct 11 | Depart for Maine 8 am | ||||
| 7 | Thurs Oct 17 | Fault Architecture, Damage zones, Networks | Everyone Read:
Caine, Evans, and Forster, 1996 Fault zone architecture and permeability structure Geology v. 24 n. 11 1025-1028 and
Rowe et al. 2013 The thickness of subduction plate boundary faults from the seafloor into the seismogenic zone. Geology v 41 n 9 991-994 Presenter: |
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| Fri Oct 18 | Methods talks (2 x 20 min + discussion) | Using Remote Sensing and Geodesy for deformation studies - Meghomita Das Moses - Subdividing and mapping highly deformed rocks |
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| 8 | Thurs Oct 24 | Brittle-Ductile Transition | Everyone read: Sibson, 1986, Earthquakes and rock deformation in crustal fault zones. Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences v. 14 n. 1 149-175
Presenter: Scholz, 1988, The brittle-plastic transition and the depth of seismic faulting. Geologisch Rundschau v. 77 n. 1 319-328 |
Meghomita | |
| Fri Oct 25 | CLASS CANCELLED - RETURN TO MORIN | ||||
| 9 | Thurs Oct 31 | Temperature Structure of Continents | Everyone read:
Hyndman et al. (2009) Temperature control of continental lithosphere
elastic thickness, Te vs. Vs. Earth and Planetary Science
Letters v. 227, n. 3-4, 539-548 Presenter: van Hunen and Moyen (2012) Archean subduction: fact or fiction? Annual Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences v. 40 195-219 |
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| Fri Nov 1 | Methods Talk | WIKIPEDIA DRAFT REVIEWS | |||
| 10 | Thurs Nov 7 | Fault Architecture, Damage zones, Networks | Everyone Read:
Caine, Evans, and Forster, 1996 Fault zone architecture and permeability structure Geology v. 24 n. 11 1025-1028 and
Rowe et al. 2013 The thickness of subduction plate boundary faults from the seafloor into the seismogenic zone. Geology v 41 n 9 991-994 Presenter: |
Dana | |
| Fri Nov 8 | Methods talks (3 x 20 min + discussion) | Hervé - Borehole instrumentation Brindley - Earthquakes for earth structure Tim - LiDAR |
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| 11 | Thurs Nov 14 | Alejandro - fractured rock in geothermal reservoirs | |||
| Fri Nov 15 | Methods talks (2 x 20 min + discussion) | Dana - shear box or roughness Maggie - paleomag Alexandre - zircon dating |
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| 12 | Thurs Nov 21 | ||||
| Fri Nov 22 | Methods talks (2 x 20 min + discussion) | Benoit Inga - Kinematic restoration using MOVE |
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| 13 | Thurs Nov 28 | PROJECT PRESENTATIONS | Meghomita Moses Hervé Dana Benoit |
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| Fri Nov 29 | PROJECT PRESENTATIONS | Alexandre Brindley Arvid Jenna+Maggie Tim |
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