Instructor:
Lisa Tauxe, 300E Ritter Hall, 858-534-6084
ltauxe@ucsd.edu, http://scrippsscholars.ucsd.edu/ltauxe
How to take this class:
Attend each lecture listed below either live in class or online, or listen to the recording online (if available). Lectures will be W/F at 2:00-3:20 pm PDT in the Sea Cave of the Eckart Building.
Do the required reading in the textbook, Essentials of Paleomagnetism. Don’t just skim the reading for clues to answer the homework - read the entire assigned part with concentration.
Work the assigned problems and e-mail a zip file with the jupyter notebook and all necessary datafiles in it to ltauxe@ucsd.edu. Problems are due the first lecture of the week after they are assigned (on Wednesday!) - but don’t procrastinate! The purpose of these assignments is to allow you to work through the lecture and reading material in an active way. You may consult with your fellow students, but the work you turn in must be your own. Do not just copy or modify answers from others, including handouts from previous classes - that is not what this class is about and will be considered cheating. Students suspected of cheating will be reported to the Academic Integrity Office.
In addition to the homework assignments (40%), there will be a field and lab project (30%) and final project or your choice (30%). The mandatory but totally fun field trip will take place on April, 16.
The most up-to-date information for this class will be at:
http://magician.ucsd.edu/~ltauxe/sio247.
NOTE: In order to download the notebook template files you must right click on the mouse and ’download linked file’. Move it to your homework directory with the termination ’.ipynb’ (NOT .txt). Then you can open the file using jupyter notebook as described in Lecture 1.
Date | Topic | Reading/Assignment | Lecture Notes | Solutions |
Solutions | ||||
Mar. 30 | Class overview | PmagPy Cookbook, | Lecture01.pdf | |
Chaps. 1, 4 & 8 | HW_1 template | |||
Install software, | ||||
find command line | ||||
create jupyter notebook | ||||
Apr 1 | Python Crash Course | PmagPy Cookbook | Lecture02.pdf | |
Chaps 7 | HW_2 template | |||
Apr. 6 | Physics of Magnetism | Essentials Chap. 1 | Lecture03.pdf | |
Problems 1.1, 1.2 &1.4 | HW_3 template | HW 3 | ||
Apr. 8 | The Geomagnetic Field | Essentials Chap. 2 | Lecture04.pdf | |
Problems 2.1 & 2.2 | HW_4 template | HW 4 | ||
Apr. 13 | Magnetism at the Atomic Level | Essentials Chap. 3 | Lecture05.pdf | |
Problems 2.3 & 3.1 | HW_5 template | HW 5 | ||
Apr. 15 | Magnetic energy, domains, &hysteresis | Essentials Chaps. 4 & 5 | Lecture06.pdf | |
Problems 4.2 & 5.2 | HW_6 template | HW 6 | ||
Apr. 16 | Special Saturday Field Trip | Meet in Sverdrup Lot | ||
at 7am | ||||
Apr. 20 | Natural Remanences | Essentials Chap. 7 | Lecture07.pdf | HW 7 |
Problems 7.2 & 7.4 | HW_7 template | |||
Apr 22 | Getting a magnetic vector | Essentials Chap. 9 | Lecture08.pdf | HW_8 |
Problems 9.1 & 9.6 | ||||
Apr 27 | Meet in lab | Prepare specimens | ||
from field trip | ||||
Apr 29 | Meet in lab | Measuring specimens | ||
and schedule lab time | ||||
May 4 | Paleomagnetic data analysis | Essentials Chap. 11 | Lecture09.pdf | HW˙9 |
Fisher statistics | Problem 11.1 | |||
May 6 | Magnetic Mineralogy | Essentials Chap. 6 | Lecture10.pdf | HW˙10 |
Problems 6.1, 6.2 & 7.1 | ||||
May 11 | Applied Rock Magnetism | Essentials Chap. 8 | Lecture11.pdf | HW˙11 |
Problems 8.1 & 8.3 | ||||
May 13 | Monte Carlo simulation | Essentials Chap. 12 | Lecture12.pdf | HW˙12 |
and bootstrapping in paleomagnetism | Problem 12.3 | |||
May 18 | Anisotropy in paleomagnetism | Essentials Chap. 13 | Lecture13.pdf | HW˙13 |
Problem 13.3 | ||||
& 2pg project proposal | ||||
May 20 | Paleointensity | Essentials Chap. 10 | Lecture14.pdf | |
Problem 10.1 | ||||
May 25 | The ancient geomagnetic field | Essentials Chap. 14 | Lecture15.pdf | |
Paleosecular variation, Reversals | ||||
and Excursions | Problems 14.1, 14.2 & 14.4 | |||
May 27 | The Geomagnetic polarity time scale | Essentials Chap. 15 | Lecture16.pdf | |
Magnetostratigraphy | work on project | |||
June 1 | Poles and apparent polar wander | Essentials Chap. 16 | Lecture17.pdf | |
Plate tectonic reconstructions | work on project | |||
June 3 | Free - work on your projects | |||
June 8 | Student presentations | |||
15 min. ppt on final project | ||||
June 10 | Project reports due | |||