This week we will be introduced to the geochronological dating method called thermochronology. Thermochronology can be used to determine the time since rocks at the surface were at a given temperature in the Earth, and combines several of the equations we have already seen earlier in the course. This will be the topic of the final two weeks of the course, as well as the final project paper you will write.
- Lecture slides on the Basics of Thermochronology, part I
- Lecture slides on the Basics of Thermochronology, part II*
- Lecture slides on the Basics of Thermochronology, part III*
- Overview slides for Exercises 13 and 14
- Description of final project report
- Exercise 13: Quantitative thermochronology, part I
- Hints for Exercise 13
* We will not go over these slides in class, but it is recommended that your look them over as they may be helpful in writing the final project paper.
- Past lesson materials
- Lesson 12: Viscous flows
- Lesson 11: Advection of Earth's surface
- Lesson 10: Natural diffusion
- Lesson 9: Fitting data
- Lesson 8: Basic geostatistics
- Lesson 7: Plotting in Python
- Lesson 6: Intro to NumPy
- Lesson 5: Reading and Writing files
- Lesson 4: Functions and modules
- Lesson 3: Control flow
- Lesson 2: Intro to version control and GitHub
- Lesson 2: Writing script files
- Lesson 2: Working on the exercises
- Scientific journal articles
- A few final report references
- Google scholar
- Web of Science (Only works on campus or via VPN)
- Web pages
- Books