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

Exploring Styles of Extension in the Gulf of California
Lisa Lamb, University of St. Thomas (MN); Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon; Scott Bennett, U.S. Geological Survey; Sue Cashman, Humboldt State University; 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.

Bathymetry of Rifted Margins
Sue Cashman, Humboldt State University; Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon; Scott Bennett, U.S. Geological Survey; Lisa Lamb, University of St. Thomas (MN); Jack Loveless, Smith College; Andrew Goodliffe, The University of Alabama
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 ...

The Plate Boundary Fault of the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake: Oceanic Provenance and Earthquake Genesis
(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 ...

Slab temperatures control melting in subduction zones, what controls slab temperature?
Chris Kincaid, University of Rhode Island
Hands-on demonstrations of advection and diffusion of heat in subduction zones, and their controls on slab thermal evolution and relationships to melting, using analog models.

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; (James) Casey Moore, University of California-Santa Cruz; Jeff Marshall, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona; Eliza Richardson, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
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.

Overview: Rupturing Continental Lithosphere Mini-Lesson Sequence
Rebecca Dorsey, University of Oregon; Scott Bennett, U.S. Geological Survey; Sue Cashman, Humboldt State University; Lisa Lamb, University of St. Thomas (MN); Jack Loveless, Smith College; Andrew Goodliffe, The University of Alabama
An examination of two contrasting rifted margins: the Red Sea and Gulf of California, leading to identification of similarities and differences associated with rifting and lithospheric rupture in each setting.

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

Central American Arc Volcanoes, Petrology, and Geochemistry
Bob Stern, The University of Texas at Dallas; Ben Edwards, Dickinson College; Jim Walker, Northern Illinois University
This module teaches basic concepts in igneous petrology through relating hand specimen identification of lavas to major element geochemistry, using the Central American volcanic arc as an example.