List of topics for Ge211 class projects, NBP0207 cruise.  Green initials next to a topic indicate who has chosen it for their short presentation.

 

  1. MAA.  Active tectonics in the California - Baja California Continental Borderland

a.      Crouch, J. K., and J. Suppe, GSA Bull., v.105, no.11, pp.1415-1434, Nov 1993. 

    1. Bohannon, R. G., and Geist, E. L., GSA Bull., v.110, no.6, pp.779-800, Jun 1998.
    2. Miller, K. C., GSAB, v.114, no.4, pp.497-512, Apr 2002.
    3. TenBrink, U., et al., JGR, v.105, no.3, pp.5835-5857, 10 Mar 2000.
    4. Ward, S. N., and Valensise, G., Geophysical Journal International, vol.126, no.3, pp.712-734, Sep. 1996.

 

  1. History of Pacific-Farallon spreading and Farallon plate breakup as recorded in magnetic anomalies of the Pacific plate SW of California
    1. Atwater DNAG paper and references therein

 

  1.  MC.   Pacific superswell (Plate epeirogeny)
    1. Crough paper
    2. McNutt paper
    3. Davies, G. F., and, Pribac, F. AGU Mono. Vol.77
    4. Gurnis, M., et al. GRL ~2001

 

  1. ERA.. Observations of SOPITA hotspot chains we will cross: Line Islands, Society, MacDonald, Pitcairn, Rarotonga
    1. Koppers et al., Testing the fixed-hotspot hypothesis using 40Ar/39Ar age progressions along seamount trails, EPSL 185, 237-252, 2001.
    2. Schlanger et al., 1984
    3. Davis, A. S., L. B. Gray, D. A. Clague, J. R. Hein, The Line Islands revisited, Geochemstry, Geophysics, Geosystems (in press, 2002).

 

  1. RP.  Age and origin of the Osbourne trough
    1. Small & Abbott,  Geology
    2. Billen and Stock JGR 2001 and references therein

 

  1. AM.  Tectonic and volcanic history of the Manihiki plateau
    1. Ai et al draft ms and references contained therein, specifically:
    2. Ito and Clift paper
    3. Hussong et al., JGR v. 84, p. 6003-6010, 1979.

 

  1. JL.  Cretaceous plate tectonics of the Western Pacific (Tongareva TJ, etc.)
    1. Larson et al. Geology 2002 and references therein, specifically:
    2. Other Larson papers
    3. Joseph et al., The Nova-Canton Trough and the Late Cretaceous evolution of the Central Pacific, in [Monograph] The Mesozoic Pacific; geology, tectonics, and volcanism, Geophysical Monograph, vol.77, pp.171-185, 1993.
    4. Joseph et al., New sidescan sonar and gravity evidence that the Nova-Canton Trough is a fracture zone, Geology (Boulder), vol.20, no.5, pp.435-438, May 1992

 

  1. Tectonics of the Hikurangi trench and Kermadec Trench
    1. Billen & Gurnis, EPSL, 2001.
    2. Cazenave and Royer 2001

 

9.     CD.  Flexural strength of the Pacific plate (from seamount loading and bending at trenches 

a.       Talwani and Watts paper

b.      Beaumont paper (visco-elasticity)

c.      Billen & Gurnis, preprint

 

  1.   VH.  Major Pacific plate fracture zones
    1. Papers by Sarah Kruse.
    2. Papers by Dave Sandwell
    3. Chad Hall, preprint

 

  1.   BS.  Louisville ridge
    1. Watts et al. 1988 JGR
    2. Lonsdale 1988 JGR

 

  1. Mesozoic magnetic anomalies of the Pacific plate
    1. Nakanishi and Winterer, JGR v. 103, no. B6, p. 12453-12468, 1998.
    2. Larson, R L, The early Cretaceous-late Jurassic magnetic reversal time scale, and the Phoenix magnetic lineations revisited, Geophysical Monograph, no.19, The geophysics of the Pacific Ocean basin and its margin, pp.203, 1976.

 

  1.  YT.  Use of anomalous skewness of the magnetic anomalies and seamounts to constrain the latitudinal motion of the Pacific plate
    1. Petronotis & Gordon, Geophys. J. Int., 139, 227-247, 1999.

 

  1.  LE.  Fine-scale tectonic structure of the ocean floor (abyssal hill topography)
    1. papers by John Goff

 

  1.  ND.  Near surface sedimentary features that can be imaged in swathmap or subbottom echo-sounder data (contourites, seafloor reflectance character, etc.)
    1. Schwalbach, J R; Edwards, B. D; and Gorsline, D S, Sedimentary Geology, vol.104, no.1-4, pp.53-72, Jul 1996.

 

  1.  GA.  Latitudinal motion of the Pacific plate determined from equatorial sediment crossings
    1. Papers by Allan Cox and Richard Gordon
    2. Paper by Peter Molnar and Gerardo Suarez
    3. New data from more recent DSDP holes

 

  1. DSDP holes near our ship track (why they were drilled and what they discovered)
    1. Various DSDP and ODP volumes

 

18.  NF.  18. Extinct Trench N. of Chatham Rise (boundary between Hikurangi Plateau & Chatham Rise)

    1. Davy, B. W. and R. Wood, Gravity and magnetic modeling of the Hikurangi Plateau, Marine Geology, v. 118, p. 139-151, 1994.
    2. Mortimer, N., and D. Parkinson, Hikurangi Plateau: a Cretaceous Large Igneous Province in the southwest Pacific Ocean, J. Geophys. Res., v. 101, p. 687-696, 1996.
    3. Wood, R., and B. Davy, The Hikurangi Plateau, Marine Geology, v. 118, p. 153-173, 1994.

 

Last update: October 9, 2002.

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