Internet Resources
Browse through this collection of internet resources drawn from the SERC catalog based on their relevance to the Deep Earth and/or teaching about it.Results 61 - 80 of 119 matches
Teaching Mineralogy from the Core to the Crust
This Journal of Geoscience Education article discusses revising the typical sequence of a mineralogy course in order to enhance retention of information and facilitate learning. Beginning with the ...
Velocity structure of the Yellowstone hot spot from teleseismic tomography: Evidence for an upper mantle plume
This journal article uses modern seismic tomographic imaging and thorough analysis of related data to identify the source of volcanism for the Yellowstone hotspot. The study deployed a dense array of ...
The earth's mantle is solid: teachers' misconceptions about the Earth and plate tectonics
Many science teachers who are asked questions about the scientific background to plate tectonics, get the answers wrong. This is not surprising because rarely have they received teaching in Earth ...
Mantle plumes - both deep and shallow
This webpage summarizes a 2004 paper published in the journal Science by Montelli and others suggesting that some mantle plumes are "deep" (interpreted to originate ...
Primer on Gravity and Magnetics
This web page explains the goals and benefits of studying gravity and magnetic data to understand subsurface geology of the Earth. It discusses uses of gravity and magnetic measurements in providing ...
Cretaceous Superplume and the Mississippi Embayment
In this abstract for the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America, Cox and Van Arsdale suggest that pronounced uplift of the Mississippi Valley Graben region associated with Bermuda ...
The Superswell and Darwin Rise: Thermal No Longer?
This short online article, from the mantleplumes.org website, reviews the evidence for a thermal plume-related cause of the large shallow region in the western Pacific Ocean containing the Darwin ...
Superplumes from the core-mantle boundary to the base of the lithosphere: evidence from Q tomography
This page at the Berkeley Seismological Laboratory summarizes the recent results of imaging the superplume beneath the Pacific superswell region by the method of Q-tomography. The page includes ...
Convection Plumes in the Lower Mantle
This is the classic 1971 Nature paper in which W.J. Morgan proposed deep mantle plumes for the origin of hotspots.
"Hotspots": Mantle Thermal Plumes
This website features the chapter on hotspots and mantle plumes in the online text "This Dynamic Earth: The Story of Plate Tectonics", published by the U.S. Geological ...
Mantle Dynamics Research at RSES
This page from the Australian National University includes discussions (with figures) of research on mantle fluid dynamics and mantle evolution.
Superplume Formation Beneath An Ancient Slab
Graduate student Eh Tan, working with Michael Gurnis at the California Institute of Technology, has recently discovered a plausible mechanism of generating superplumes at the core mantle boundary. ...
Mantle Convection Movies On-Line at Caltech
This Caltech website contains movies and animations about mantle convection, along with brief summaries of the science behind it. Topics covered include supercontinents, superplumes, Australia, ...
Mantle Plumes and Mountain Building
This page presents an abstract from the American Scientist March-April 1999 issue. It discusses how the westward progress of the North American plate over the relatively stationary Yellowstone plume ...
Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics
This web page describes the composition and structure of the Earth and the seismic methods used to distinguish the divisions of the Earth's interior. It describes the major characteristics of the ...
Layers of the Earth (title provided or enhanced by cataloger)
This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches students to identify the layers of the Earth, including the crust, mantle and core. The site provides goals, objectives, an outline, time required, ...
Earth Composition (title provided or enhanced by cataloger)
This Classroom Connectors lesson plan teaches students about the structure and composition of the Earth by describing and constructing a model of the Earth's layers. This site provides goals, ...
Origin of The Earths Magnetism
This site holds information on the Dynamo Theory, the suspected cause of Earth's magnetic field. The Earth's magnetism seems to come from fluid motions in the Earth's core, from circulating flows ...
