A course on the kinematics of the lithosphere and continental crust

This course is taught by Professor Vince Cronin

This is simply a list of resources for the 2019 edition of my plate kinematics course. The list is in stratigraphic order, with most recently posted items on top and oldest items drifting ever lower in the pile.

The homepage for earlier editions of this course is available via http://croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/

• April 10, 2019
  • The code to find the location of a point after a finite displacement along a cycloid trajectory: CycloidModuleFeb2012.nb
  • The template of a working Mathematica code that computes the future finite motion of a set of points on a plate as observed from another plate: templateB.nb .
    • Joseph Thangraj's modification of templateB.nb to investigate motion along the North America-Caribbean plate boundary: CycloidNA-CA.nb .
  • The template of a working Mathematica code with graphics that shows the evolution of part of a plate boundary from at least 5 Myr in the past to 5 Myr in the future in at least three steps (-5 Myr, today, +5 Myr) templateC.nb.
• March 29, 2019
  • The notebook "Modeling-Circular-Finite-Motion.nb" that accomplishes the rotation of one or more points around an arbitrary Euler pole: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/Modeling-Circular-Finite-Motion.nb
  • Notebooks related to analyzing the Afar triple Junction
    • Modeling the Nubian Plate at the Afar triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/NubiaAtAfarTJ.nb
    • Modeling the Somalian Plate at the Afar triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/SomaliaAtAfarTJ.nb
    • Modeling the Arabian Plate at the Afar triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/ArabiaAtAfarTJ.nb
    • Modeling the Afar triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/Modeling-Afar.nb
  • Notebooks related to analyzing the Mendocino triple Junction
    • Pacific Plate motion relative to the NNR-MORVEL56 reference frame at the Mendocino triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/PCFC-rel2-NNR-MORVEL56.nb
    • North American Plate motion relative to the NNR-MORVEL56 reference frame at the Mendocino triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/NOAM-rel2-NNR-MORVEL56.nb
    • Juan de Fuca Plate motion relative to the NNR-MORVEL56 reference frame at the Mendocino triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/JF-rel2-NNR-MORVEL56.nb
    • Characterization of the instantaneous motion of the Pacific and Juan de Fuca Plates at the Mendocino triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/TJ-boundary-characterization-PA-JF.nb
    • Characterization of the instantaneous motion of the North America and Juan de Fuca Plates at the Mendocino triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/TJ-boundary-characterization-NA-JF.nb
    • Characterization of the instantaneous motion of the Pacific and North American Plates at the Mendocino triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/TJ-boundary-characterization-PA-NA.nb
    • Modeling the Mendocino triple junction: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/Modeling-Mendocino.nb
• February 18, 2019
  • The notebook "TJ-boundary-characterization-ModDev.nb" that was used to develop a module that uses the MORVEL plate-motion model to predict the kinematic conditions along a given plate boundary: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/TJ-boundary-characterization-ModDev.nb
  • The notebook "TJ-boundary-characterization.nb" that uses the MORVEL plate-motion model to predict the kinematic conditions along a given plate boundary: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/TJ-boundary-characterization.nb
  • Map of the Mendocino triple junction with and without annotations.
  • Map of the Macquarie-Pacific-Antarctic triple junction with and without annotations.
  • Data for two triple junctions
  • PDF files of completed analyses of the North American-Juan de Fuca-Pacific plate triple-junction: JF-NA, JF-PA, and NA-PA.
• February 6, 2019
  • A Mathematica notebook template for homework problem 4: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/YourName-HW04.nb. You are asked to supply a reasonable short description of the user-defined function "tangVelocity" that can be inserted in a notebook before that module is defined.
  • The notebook "tangVel_ModuleDev.nb" that was used to develop a module that computes the instantaneous tangential velocity and speed of one plate as observed from a reference point on another plate: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/tangVel_ModuleDev.nb
  • The notebook "DistAzModule.nb" that computes the distance and azimuth between two points on Earth's surface: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/DistAzModule.nb
• January 25, 2019
  • A Mathematica notebook template for homework problem 3: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/YourName-HW03.nb
• January 23, 2019
  • A Mathematica notebook template for homework problem 2: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/YourName-HW02.nb
• January 18, 2019
  • A Mathematica notebook template for homework problem 1: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/YourName-HW01.nb
• January 16, 2019
  • A sample Mathematica notebook template for homework problems: croninprojects.org/Vince/PlateKinematics/KinematicsCourse/YourName-HW00.nb
• January 14, 2019
  • The handout with very basic references for our course: KinematicsReferences.docx

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To contact Vince Cronin by email, use Vince_Cronin@baylor.edu
All of the original content of this website is © 2019 by Vincent S. Cronin