Reading list

For course reserves either go to the Geology Library desk, or for on-line ones, go to the UW Library site's Course Reserves Page and search using Howell as the instructor.

For electronic journals listed or linked below the University does have a subscription, but in most cases if you try to access them from off-campus the journal's system may not recognize that subscription. Either download a pdf copy while connected through the University net, or follow the procedures described on the UW Library web site for accessing e-journals while off campus. I usually find the downloaded PDF's easier to read than the on-line web versions, and you can then either print them or view them on a computer off-campus.

For Fri. Sept. 1

Read Chapter 1 of Wood (on reserve).

For Wed. Sept. 6

Read Wood Ch. 6 and 8 (on reserve).

For Fri. Sept. 8

Rozel et al. 2017 "Continental crust formation on early Earth controlled by intrusive magmatism." Nature 545: 332-335

For Wed. Sept. 13

Pg. 1-5 of Mineralogy Summary. (Link on class home page)

For Fri. Sept. 15

Grossman, 1972 "Condensation in the Solar Nebula." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 36: 597-619

For Friday Sept. 22 (Student Presentations)

Connelly et al. 2012, "The Absolute Chronology and Thermal Processing of Solids in the Solar Protoplanetary Disk." 338: 651-665.

and

Simon et al., 2011, "Oxygen Isotope Variations at the Margin of a CAI Records Circulation Within the Solar Nebula." Science, 331: 1175-1178

For Monday Sept. 25 and following days

Read Chapter 4 (The Moon) of Christiansen and Hamblin (on reserve).

For Fri. Sept. 29 (Student Presentations)

Gomes et al. 2005. "Origin of the catacylsmic Late Heavy Bombardment period of the terrestrial planets." Nature 26 May, 435: p. 466-469.

       The following overview and paper from the same issue provide additional background:
       Hahn 2005; When giants roamed.    Nature 26 May, 435: 432-433.
       Tsiganis et al. 2005. "Origin of the orbital architecture of the giant planets of the Solar System" p. 459-461.

and also for Sept. 29

    Shoemaker and Hackman 1962; "Stratigraphic Basis for Lunar Time Scale."    in "The Moon", Kopal and Mikhailov, ed. p289-300.

    Note the maps and images in the original scanned version on the ADS web site are not very good.
    The above link is to a local copy where I've added better versions of the map and image.
    Here is a link to the original ADS copy in case you do want to see that.

For Fri. Oct. 6 (Student Presentation)

Bugiolacchi et al. 2008 "Compositional and temporal investigation of exposed lunar basalts in the Mare Imbrium region." Icarus 197: (1-18)

plus

Lawrence et al. 1998 "Global Elemental Maps of the Moon." Science 281: 1484-1489

For Fri. Oct. 13 (Student Presentation)

Zuber et al. 2013 "Gravity Field of the Moon from the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) Mission" Science 339: 668-671.
You can just skim the middle section on the power spectra, coherence, and the discussion of Figure 2. Concentrate on the introduction and also the section describing the free-air and Bouguer gravity anomalies shown in Fig. 3.

Andrews-Hanna et al. 2014 "Structure and evolution of the lunar Procellarum region as revealed by GRAIL gravity data" Nature 514: 68-71.

For Wed. Oct. 25

Read Wood Ch. 5 Planetary Atmospheres (on reserve).

For Fri. Oct. 27 (Student Presentation)

The papers for this week are all from the Sept. 13, 2014 issue of "Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society" which reports the results of the third major conference on lunar origins held in Sept. 2013. We will cover the brief introduction by Stevenson and Halliday, then the first main paper by Hartmann. For the latter, skim the history section and concentrate on "current issues". We'll then cover the final paper of the series by Crawford and Joy, summarizing the exporation history of the moon and how future new observations and samples could address current issues. Once again skim the history and concentrate on the later sections. While not required reading, other papers from the Transactions are available on-line.

    First Talk:
    Stevenson and Halliday 2014 "The origin of the moon" Phil. Trans. of the Royal Soc. 372: 20140289.
    and
    Hartmann 2014 "The giant impact hypothesis: past, present (and future?)" Phil. Trans. of the Royal Soc. 372: 20130249.

Second Talk:
Crawford and Joy 2014 "Lunar exploration: opening a window into the history and evolution of the inner Solar System" Phil. Trans. of the Royal Soc. 372: 20130315