Materials associated with 2020 seminar on Essentials of Paleomagnetism Wednesdays from 1:30 pm to 3:30 in McCone 345 (or on Zoom).
| Meeting Date | Reading/Prep | During seminar |
|---|---|---|
| 01/29/20 | Organizational meeting and PmagPy introduction | Install conda and PmagPy; Plot IGRF on the day you were born in PmagPy and by hand |
| 02/05/20 | The Geomagnetic Field; Read: Chapter 2 (The geomagnetic field) of https://earthref.org/MagIC/books/Tauxe/Essentials/ Watch: Tauxe Lecture 1 (you can access this file with a berkeley.edu address) Calculate and plot: Do problem 3 of Essentials of Paleomagnetism Chapter 2 | Calculate, plot, and discuss the relationship between latitude and inclination. Calculate, plot, and discuss the relationship between latitude and intensity. |
| 02/12/20 | Induced and remanent magnetism; Read: Chapter 3 (Induced and remanent magnetism) of https://earthref.org/MagIC/books/Tauxe/Essentials/ Watch: Tauxe Lecture 2 (you can access this file with a berkeley.edu address) Calculate and plot: Do problem 5 of Essentials of Paleomagnetism Chapter 3. | Review the key terms and concepts. Work through the problem. Review problem 3 of Chapter 2 (calculating VGPs) |
| 02/19/20 | Magnetic mineralogy and the acquisition of magnetic remanence; Read: Chapters 2 (https://www.geo.arizona.edu/Paleomag/chap02.pdf) and 3 (https://www.geo.arizona.edu/Paleomag/chap03.pdf) of Butler textbook Watch: Tauxe Lecture 3 (you can access this file with a berkeley.edu address) Calculate and plot: Do problem 2 of Essentials of Paleomagnetism Chapter 4 (utilize equation 4.11 and reproduce Figure 4.10). | Zoom meeting Lisa Tauxe's and others on the MagIC team to work through MagIC workshop notebook. |
| 02/26/20 | Same prep as last week | Discuss key concepts. |
| 03/04/20 | Read: Chapter 9 (Getting a Paleomagnetic Direction) of https://earthref.org/MagIC/books/Tauxe/Essentials/ Watch: Tauxe Lecture 4 | Discuss key concepts. Work through Demag GUI tutorial. https://github.com/Swanson-Hysell-Group/2020_Demag_GUI_tutorial |
| 03/11/20 | Read: Chapter 11 (Fisher Statistics) of https://earthref.org/MagIC/books/Tauxe/Essentials/ Watch: Tauxe Lecture 4. Download the file to watch it if you have not already. Tauxe Lecture 5 | Discuss key concepts |
| 03/18/20 | Calculate and plot: Do problems 1 and 2 of Essentials of Paleomagnetism Chapter 11 | Discuss key concepts and review problems. |
| 04/01/20 | Read: Chapter 12 (Beyond Fisher statistics) of https://earthref.org/MagIC/books/Tauxe/Essentials/. Calculate and plot: Do problems 1 and 2 of Essentials of Paleomagnetism Chapter 12 | Discuss key concepts and review problems. |
| 04/08/20 | Read: Chapter 10 (Paleointensity) of https://earthref.org/MagIC/books/Tauxe/Essentials/. Calculate and plot: Do problem 3 Essentials of Paleomagnetism Chapter 12 and send to Nick | Yiming gives paleointensity presentation. |
| 04/15/20 | Do: Complete the Thellier GUI tutorial you find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRDiIXCm-sY using Pmag GUI. Send a screenshot of interpretations you have made to the paleointensity data in Thellier GUI to Nick. | Follow-up paleointensity discussion |
| 04/22/20 | Read: Chapter 16 (Tectonic Applications of Paleomagnetism) of https://earthref.org/MagIC/books/Tauxe/Essentials/. | Paleogeography lecture |
| 04/29/20 | Do: Follow the excellent GPlates tutorial of Lydian Boschmann (parts 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO_Z6z9ACQc and 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p65SYiopY78). The files are all available here: https://github.com/Swanson-Hysell-Group/2020_Paleomagnetism_Essentials_Seminar/tree/master/8_GPlates Send Nick your completed .rot file | Paleogeography lecture |