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Tectonics and Geodynamics

Prof. Saibal Gupta · IIT Kharagpur

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Lectures

week-01

  1. Lecture 01 : The beginnings - Continental Drift Theory Video
  2. Lecture 02 : Demise of the Continental Drift Theory Video
  3. Lecture 03 : The Sea Floor Video
  4. Lecture 04 : Sea Floor Spreading Video
  5. Lecture 05 : Rigid Plates on the Earths Surface Video

week-02

  1. Lecture 06 : How plates would move on a flat Earth Video
  2. Lecture 07 : Three Plate Motions on a Flat Earth Video
  3. Lecture 08 : Plate boundary movements on a Flat Earth Video
  4. Lecture 09 : Triple junctions on a flat Earth – Part I Video
  5. Lecture 10 : Triple junctions on a flat Earth – Part II Video

week-03

  1. Lecture 11 : Evaluation of selected triple junctions Video
  2. Lecture 12 : Plate Motions on a Spherical Earth Video
  3. Lecture 13 : Calculating Relative Motions at Plate Boundaries Video
  4. Lecture 14 : Combination of Rotation Vectors Video
  5. Lecture 15 : Finite and Infinitesimal, Rotations, and Absolute Plate Motions Video

week-04

  1. Lecture 16 : The Magnetic Field of the Earth Video
  2. Lecture 17 : Calculating the Earth's Magnetic Field Video
  3. Lecture 18 : Calculating the Earth's Magnetic Field(Contd.) Video
  4. Lecture 19 : Magnetizing rocks and Magnetic Anomalies Video
  5. Lecture 20 : The Geomagnetic Reversal Time Scale Video

week-05

  1. Lecture 21 : History of the Oceans Video
  2. Lecture 22 : It's all About Heat! Video
  3. Lecture 23 : The 1-D Heat Conduction Equation Video
  4. Lecture 24 : More on the Heat Conduction Equation Video
  5. Lecture 25 : The Equilibrium Geotherm Video

week-06

  1. Lecture 26 : Conditions affecting the equilibrium geotherm Video
  2. Lecture 27 : Continental Heat Flow and Heat Flow Provinces Video
  3. Lecture 28 : Heat Flow Provinces in Crust with active erosion Video
  4. Lecture 29 : The thermal Gradient in the Earth's Mantle Video
  5. Lecture 30 : Thermal Structure of the Earth's Mantle Video

week-07

  1. Lecture 31 : Oceanic Heat Flow Video
  2. Lecture 32 : Cooling of the Oceanic Lithosphere - I Video
  3. Lecture 33 : Cooling of the Oceanic Lithosphere - II Video
  4. Lecture 34 : Cooling of the Oceanic Lithosphere and Bathymetric Depth Video
  5. Lecture 35 : Forces acting on Plates - Driving and Resistive Forces Video

week-08

  1. Lecture 36 : The breakings of continents - I Video
  2. Lecture 37 : The breakings of continents - II Video
  3. Lecture 38 : Formation of passive continental margins Video
  4. Lecture 39 : Stretching the Lithosphere Video
  5. Lecture 40 : Consequences of continental Lithospheric stretching Video

week-09

  1. Lecture 41 : Formation of extensional basins and continental margins Video
  2. Lecture 42 : The Mid-Oceanic Ridge Rift Sysem Video
  3. Lecture 43 : Structure of the ocean crust and the ophiolite model Video
  4. Lecture 44 : Mantle Petrology Video
  5. Lecture 45 : Melting of the mantle at Mid-Oceanic ridges Video

week-10

  1. Lecture 46 : Conservative Plate Boundaries - Transform Faults Video
  2. Lecture 47 : Oceanic Transform Faults - Morphology and Crustal Structure Video
  3. Lecture 48 : Explaining the Idiosyncrasies of Oceanic Transforms - I Video
  4. Lecture 49 : Explaining the Idiosyncrasies of Oceanic Transforms - II Video
  5. Lecture 50 : Continental Transforms Video

week-11

  1. Lecture 51 : Convergent Margins Video
  2. Lecture 52 : Geophysical characteristics of subduction zones Video
  3. Lecture 53 : The arc basement and accretionary prism Video
  4. Lecture 54 : Mechanics of Thrust sheets and accretionary prism process - I Video
  5. Lecture 55 : Mechanics of Thrust sheets and accretionary prism process - II Video

week-12

  1. Lecture 56 : Arcuate trenches, outer swells & back-arc basins Video
  2. Lecture 57 : Magmatism associated with subduction zones Video
  3. Lecture 58 : Collisions! Video
  4. Lecture 59 : Continent-Continent collisions & Formation of Suture Zones Video
  5. Lecture 60 : Did Plate tectonics operate on Early Earth Video

Live Session

  1. Live Session 13-02-2025 Video
  2. Live Session 18-03-2025 Video
  3. Live Session 21-04-2025 Video

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Credits and licence

Institution
IIT Kharagpur
Department
Civil Engineering
Teacher
Prof. Saibal Gupta
Level
Undergraduate
Language
English
Subjects
Engineering
Source
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