Advanced Approaches to Crustal Deformation

Harvard FAS

This graduate course considers quantitative approaches to crustal deformation outside of classical numerical methods. Beginning with observational constraints such as fractal fault structure and kinematic histories, the course first develops the Somigiana tensor and distance scaling relationships. This is followed by an overview of boundary integral methods, both in their classical form and in possible nonlocal, higher-order, and mollified extensions. Fracture is treated using maximum-entropy…