Seminar in Geophysics: Mantle Convection

Lecture Notes

Lec #	Topics	Lecturers	Lecture notes
1	Introduction	Rick O’Connell and Bill McDonough	(PDF) (Courtesy of Richard O’Connell and William McDonough. Used with permission.)
2	Melting and Differentiation	Tim Grove
3	Basics of Convection	Rick O’Connell and Brad Hager	(PDF) (Courtesy of Richard O’Connell and Bradford Hager. Used with permission.)
4	Isotope Systems and Geochemistry	Stan Hart	(PDF) (Courtesy of Stan Hart and scribed by Jamie Kellogg.  Used with permission.)
5	More on Mantle Dynamics	Brad Hager, Rick O’Connell, Louise Kellogg	(PDF) (Courtesy of Shijie Zhong. Used with permission.)
6	Seismology Part I: Subduction Zones	Rob Van Der Hilst	(PDF)
7	Constraints from Noble Gas Data on Mantle Mixing	Louise Kellogg and Stein Jacobsen
8	Seismology Part II: Constraints on Mantle Structure from Global Tomography	Rob Van Der Hilst
9	Open Discussion of Issues
10	Mantle Stratification (or lack thereof)	Tom Jordan
11	Student Presentation of Research Proposals (Final Assignment)