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Ocean Basin Bathymetry Course Notes: Understanding Lithosphere Composition & Evolution

Learn about lithospheric base, rheological boundaries, mantle rheology, thermal energy conservation, and cooling rock columns in relation to ocean basin bathymetry. Dive deep into the evolution of lithospheric structure and its relationship to geological time scales.

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Ocean Basin Bathymetry Course Notes: Understanding Lithosphere Composition & Evolution

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  1. Ocean Basin Bathymetry Course Notes: 2.1

  2. Profile of Ocean Bathy Course Notes: 2.1

  3. What’s “a”? Course Notes: 2.1

  4. What is the Lithosphere? Course Notes: 2.2

  5. What is the Lithosphere? 1. It is all the mat’l that moves with the migrating crustal surface. 2. It is all the mat’s that behaves as a solid on geologic time scales. Both definitions establish lithospheric base as a rheological, not compositional boundary such as the moho is defined. Since the main determinant of mantle rheology is temperature, we can place the base of the lithosphere at an isotherm. T = 1200 deg. C Why? Because lab experiments show that above this temp, mantle materials deform sufficiently rapidly to be considered fluids on geological time scales. Course Notes: 2.2

  6. Conservation of Thermal Energy, a.k.a. The Heat Flow Problem Blackboard derivation Course Notes: 2.3

  7. Evolution of Thermal Structure in Cooling Rock Column Course Notes: 2.3

  8. Why the droop? The mean temp. of the lithosphere is cooler, and hence more dense, than the mantle. This urge to sink increases with lithospheric thickness, which increases with time subjected to cooling. Course Notes: 2.4 & 2.5

  9. Oceans of Kansas Course Notes: 2.5

  10. Mono Lake – Problem 1 of Problem Set #1

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