TECTONOPHYSICS

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2022 Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the Scientific Theory of Plate Tectonics by writing, solving, illustrating, and exemplifying Euler’s formula for rigid tectonic plates moving on a sphere. Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the earthquake deformation cycle in time and space by sketching a map over ~100 km and a time series over ~1000 years. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate an understanding of the physical principles of crustal deformation by writing, applying, and solving the differential equations governing motion under the constitutive relations for rigid, elastic, and Maxwell visco-elastic rheologies. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate an understanding of quantitative reasoning for testing geophysical hypotheses by comparing two competing models with appropriate statistical tests. Audience: Graduate 5. Visualize plate motions on a 3-dimensional sphere by writing, debugging, and writing computer applications. Audience: Graduate 6. Analyze geophysical data and interpret them by implementing simple models in the Matlab computer language. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Demonstrate an understanding of the Scientific Theory of Plate Tectonics by writing, solving, illustrating, and exemplifying Euler’s formula for rigid tectonic plates moving on a sphere. Audience: Graduate 2. Demonstrate an understanding of the earthquake deformation cycle in time and space by sketching a map over ~100 km and a time series over ~1000 years. Audience: Graduate 3. Demonstrate an understanding of the physical principles of crustal deformation by writing, applying, and solving the differential equations governing motion under the constitutive relations for rigid, elastic, and Maxwell visco-elastic rheologies. Audience: Graduate 4. Demonstrate an understanding of quantitative reasoning for testing geophysical hypotheses by comparing two competing models with appropriate statistical tests. Audience: Graduate 5. Visualize plate motions on a 3-dimensional sphere by writing, debugging, and writing computer applications. Audience: Graduate 6. Analyze geophysical data and interpret them by implementing simple models in the Matlab computer language. Audience: Graduate