Overview: The Subduction Factory Mini-lessons
Ben Edwards, Dickinson College; Chris Kincaid, University of Rhode Island; Bob Stern, The University of Texas at Dallas; Sarah Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland-College Park

Bathymetry of Rifted Margins
Sue Cashman, California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt; Becky Dorsey; Scott Bennett, U.S. Geological Survey; Melissa Lamb; Jack Loveless, Smith College; Andrew Goodliffe, The University of Alabama; Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon; Lisa Lamb, University of St Thomas
This is one component of the Rupturing Continental Lithosphere suite of mini-lessons. Students investigate the morphology of rifted margins by creating topographic/bathymetric maps and profiles across the Red Sea ...

Role of Plate Motion Obliquity in Rifting
Jack Loveless, Smith College; Scott Bennett, U.S. Geological Survey; Becky Dorsey; Sue Cashman, California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt; Lisa Lamb, University of St Thomas; Andrew Goodliffe, The University of Alabama; Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon
A module that uses Euler poles to describe the relative motion between the Baja Microplate and North American Plate, highlighting how the obliquity of rifting changes along strike in the Gulf of California.

Subduction zone metamorphism
Sarah Penniston-Dorland, University of Maryland-College Park
This module introduces students to subduction zone metamorphism through the examination of rock samples, calculating P-T-t paths, and comparing them to thermal model predictions of P-T paths.

Accretionary vs. erosive subduction margins
David Pearson, Idaho State University; Casey Moore; Jeff Marshall, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Eliza Richardson, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus; (James) Casey Moore, University of California-Santa Cruz
This module examines the nature and variability of subduction margins through examination of data sets that document subduction zone inputs, deformation, and resulting morphology in different settings.

The Plate Boundary Fault of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake: Oceanic Provenance and Earthquake Genesis
Casey Moore, University of California-Santa Cruz; (James) Casey Moore, University of California-Santa Cruz
This is one component of the Seismogenic zone Experiment Mini Lessons This mini lesson provides an example of how stratigraphy influences tectonics, and vice versa. The magnitude 9 Tohoku earthquake slipped a ...

Exploring Styles of Extension in the Gulf of California
Lisa Lamb, University of St Thomas; Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon; Scott Bennett, U.S. Geological Survey; Sue Cashman, California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt; Jack Loveless, Smith College; Andrew Goodliffe, The University of Alabama
An introduction to processes associated with continental rifting, and resulting fault geometries and distributions, and lithospheric responses, using seismic data examples from the Gulf of California.

From Source to Sink: How Sediment Reflects the Journey from the Mountains to the Sea
Kathy Surpless, Trinity University; Lonnie Leithold, North Carolina State University at Raleigh; Adam Hoffman, University of Dubuque; Steve Kuehl, William & Mary
This is one component of the Source to Sink Mini Lesson Set Continental margins are phenomenal places to study the modern sedimentary cycle because sediment in margin regions has been routed from mountains ...

Sediment Dispersal and Continental Margin Stratigraphy
Kathy Surpless, Trinity University; Adam Hoffman, University of Dubuque; Steve Kuehl, William & Mary; Lonnie Leithold, North Carolina State University at Raleigh
This module examines different sediment dispersal systems and their relationships and controls on margin stratigraphy and geometry, using data sets from the Fly and Waipaoa river systems.

Role of Sedimentation in Rifting
Becky Dorsey; Sue Cashman, California State Polytechnic University-Humboldt; Scott Bennett, U.S. Geological Survey; Jack Loveless, Smith College; Lisa Lamb, University of St Thomas; Andrew Goodliffe, The University of Alabama; Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon
A module in which students use field and geophysical measurements and observations of Gulf of California basins to calculate isostasy and its controls.