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Geodynamics

Graduate · Historical course

Fall 2006

Topics

  • Course Overview
  • Stress
  • Different Representations of Stress
  • Tectonic Stress
  • Changing Coordinate Systems and Mohr’s Circle
  • Stress Variations in the Crust
  • Strain
  • Measuring Strain
  • Mohr’s Circle for Strain
  • Finite Strain - Motivation
  • Introduction to Constitutive Equations and Elasticity
  • Elasticity
  • More Special Cases of Elasticity
  • Simple Example: Uniaxial Strain
  • Special Cases
  • Dislocation in Elastic Halfspace Model of the Earthquake Cycle
  • Stress and Strain from a Screw Dislocation
  • Plates
  • Plates (cont.)
  • Fluids
  • Fluids (cont.)
  • Navier Stokes Equation
  • The Rayleigh - Taylor Instability
  • The Stream Function and Postglacial Rebound
  • Corner Flow
  • Flow in Porous Media
  • Time Dependent Porous Flow

Readings

  • Turcotte, D. L., and J. Schubert. Geodynamics . 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521666244.
    Listed reading
  • Malvern, L. E. Introduction to the Mechanics of a Continuous Medium . Paramus, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1977. ISBN: 9780134876030.
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  • Ranalli, G. Rheology of the Earth . New York, NY: Springer; 2nd ed. edition, 1995. ISBN: 9780412546709.
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  • Turcotte, D. L., and J. Schubert. Geodynamics. 2nd ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780521666244.
    Listed reading
  • Ranalli, G. Rheology of the Earth . New York, Ny: Springer; 2nd ed. edition, 1995. ISBN: 9780412546709.
    Listed reading
  • Jaeger, J. C. Elasticity, Fracture and Flow. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons Inc. ISBN: 978047043645.
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  • Ramsay, J. G. Folding and Fracturing of Rocks. Caldwell, NJ: Blackburn Press, 2004. ISBN: 9781930665897.
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  • Pearson, C. E. Theoretical Elasticity. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959. ISBN: 0598266860.
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  • Jaeger, J. C., and N. C. Cook. Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics . Chapman and Hall Ltd, 1979. ISBN: 9780470268049.
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  • Johnson, A. M. Physical Processes in Geology . Revised ed. San Francisco, CA: Freeman, Cooper & Company, 1970. ISBN: 9780877353195.
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  • Jeffreys, H. The Earth: Its Origin, History, and Physical Constitution . 6th ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1976. ISBN: 9780521206488.
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  • Batchelor, G. K. An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics . New ed. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2000. ISBN: 9780521663960.
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Sources