ASSIGNMENTS/ RESEARCH PAPER

 

 

The assignments will consist of a paper, which results from your reading on individually selected topics, related to the weekly discussions. The first short assignment will consist solely of a synopsis of two presented research papers, presented in the form of a Nature News and Views article. The second, larger, paper is an in-depth analysis of one of the discussion topics. The paper you submit should be in the form of a paper for submission to the journal; Journal of Geophysical Research. It should be typed, double spaced, and about 3000 words in length and adequately illustrated with appropriate figures.

 

Two seminars will be given during the course of unit, each on one paper up for discussion in a given week. The format should be as per a conference presentation. The seminars will be assessed, as is student participation in the critical discussion of each paper.

 

 

EXTENSIONS AND PENALTIES:

 

Whenever possible requests for an extension should be submitted prior to an assignment’s due date. Late assignments will be date stamped and a penalty of 10% per day (Monday to Friday) will be deducted from the total mark.

 

ACADEMIC HONESTY AND PLAGIARISM.

 

Plagiarism involves using the work of another person and presenting it as one’s own. If you use the work of another person without clearly stating or acknowledging the source, you are falsely claiming that material as your own work and committing an act of PLAGIARISM. This is a very serious violation of good practice and an offence for which you will be penalised. You should read the University's policies and procedures on plagiarism. These can be found at: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/academic_honesty/policy.html  

The policies and procedures explain what plagiarism is, how to avoid it, the procedures taken in cases of suspected plagiarism, and the penalties if you are found guilty. Penalties may include a deduction of marks, failure in the unit, and/or referral to the University Discipline Committee.

 

As such, all assignments must have a signed “Faculty of Science” (FoS) assignment cover sheet attached. These sheets are available from the Science centre or from the FoS WEB page.

 

UNIVERSITY POLICIES

 

Macquarie is developing a number of policies in the area of learning and teaching. Approved policies and associated guidelines and procedures can be found at Policy Central: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/ . There you will find the University’s policy and associated procedures on assessment, Special Consideration and grade appeal.

Lecture Times

 

Time:                Wednesdays, 3-5pm.

                      

Venue:              12SW Room 301.

TEXTBOOK AND TECHNOLOGY USED

 

There is no set textbook for this unit, but a number of reference texts worth considering are:

 

QE509.4.D38/1999        Davies G.F., Dynamic Earth, Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection, 1999

QC806.F625                 Fowler C.M.R., The Solid Earth, 1990

QE501.T83                   Turcotte D.L. & Schubert G., Geodynamics, 1982

QE509.4 .S38               Schubert G., Turcotte D.L., Olson, P.,  Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets,                               2001 

 

 

The unit also has a WEB site which can be found through the Online Learning @ MQ WEBSITE at http://learn.mq.edu.au/.  This site contains information such as the papers to be discussed in class. At the start of the year you should be issued with a username and password to access all the WEB sites available for the units you have taken. This will get you into the front page of the GEOS700 WEB site. Please note that some sections within the WEB site require an internal username and password; the username is geos700 and please see, or call me to obtain the password. Information for students about access to online units is available at 

https://learn.mq.edu.au/webct/RelativeResourceManager/25994001/Public%20Files/uw/software.html

 

Below is a list of references that may be helpful in expanding certain aspects of the unit.

 

 

REFERENCES

 

QC806.A515                 Anderson D.L., Theory of the Earth, 1989

QE501.A7513/1984        Artyushkov E.V., Geodynamics

QB501.N47                  Beatty J.K. & Chaikin A. (Eds), The New Solar System (3rd ed.), 1990

QE509.B75                   Bott M.P., The interior of the Earth (2nd ed.), 1982

QE501.4.P35.B88                Butler R.F., Paleomagnetism, 1991

QE527.7 .C66/2001       Candie K.C., Mantle Plumes and their record in Earth History, 2001

QC806.C65                  Cook A.H., Physics of the Earth and Planets, 1973

QE511.4.C683/1986       Cox A. & Hart R.B., Plate tectonics: how it works, 1986

QC806.D39                  De Bremaecker J-C, Geophysics: The earth’s Interior, 1985

QB501.N18                  Dermott S.F. (Ed), The origin of the Solar System, 1977

QE501.E67/1990           Ernst W.G., The Dynamic Planet

QC827.I7                     Irving E., Paleomagnetism, 1964

QE509.E234/1998          Jackson I, The Earth's Mantle, 1998

QE509.J27/1992            Jacobs J.A. Deep Interior of the Earth, 1992

QE509.E232/2000          Karato S. et al, Earth's Deep Interior, 2000

QE511.4.K43/1996        Kearey P. & Vine F.J., Global Tectonics (2^nd Ed), 1996

QE35.E18                     McElhinny M.W., The Earth, its Origin, Structure and Evolution, 1979

QE501.4.P35.M35/2000 McElhinny M.W. & McFadden, Paleomagnetism: continents and oceans, 2000

QC816.M4                   Merrill R.T. & McElhinny M.W., The Earth’s Magnetic Field, 1983

QC816.M47/1996                Merrill R.T., McElhinny M.W. & McFadden P.L. The magnetic field of the Earth: palaeomagnetism, the core, and the deep mantle, 1996

QE511.4.H57/2000        Richards et al, The History and Dynamics of Global Plate Motions, 2000

QE501.S3/1982             Scheidegger A.E., Principles of Geodynamics

QC806.S54/1997           Sleep N.H. & Fujita K., Principles of Geophysics, 1997

QE26.2.C35                  Smith D.G. (Ed), The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of Earth Sciences

QC806.S65                   Stacey F.D., Physics of the Earth (2nd & 3rd eds.), 1977 & 1992

QE511.44.G46              Summerfield M.A., Geomorphology and Global Tectonics, 2000

QE340.B55                   Veevers J. J., Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland, 2000

QE340.B552                              Veevers J.J., ATLAS of Billion-year earth history of Australia and neighbours in Gondwanaland, 2001