ADVANCED STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how geological structures record some combination of displacement, strain, stress, and rheology. Audience: Graduate 2. Apply simple mathematics to understanding geological structures (that is, what problems can you address with what mathematics). Audience: Graduate 3. Apply tensor analysis to deformed rocks. Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze microstructures using concepts of displacement, strain, stress, deformation mechanisms, reactions, and rheology. Audience: Graduate 5. Describe, at a fundamental level, simple shear and transpressional/transtensional deformation. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain how geological structures record some combination of displacement, strain, stress, and rheology. Audience: Graduate 2. Apply simple mathematics to understanding geological structures (that is, what problems can you address with what mathematics). Audience: Graduate 3. Apply tensor analysis to deformed rocks. Audience: Graduate 4. Analyze microstructures using concepts of displacement, strain, stress, deformation mechanisms, reactions, and rheology. Audience: Graduate 5. Describe, at a fundamental level, simple shear and transpressional/transtensional deformation. Audience: Graduate