MECHANICS OF EARTHQUAKES AND FAULTING

Prerequisites & course information

Requisites: Graduate/professional standing Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Spring 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the fundamental theory underlying our current knowledge of fault mechanics, rock friction, and seismicity. Audience: Graduate 2. Summarize recent advances in topics including earthquake nucleation and propagation, dynamic friction and the rock record of seismicity. Audience: Graduate 3. Establish skills in the critical reading and analysis of current scientific literature via classroom discussion. Audience: Graduate 4. Show independent skills in scientific reasoning and advanced analysis of cutting-edge research in the field via construction of a term paper on a topic that involves or is relevant to their own research. Audience: Graduate 5. Illustrate the development of skills in scientific writing via both one-page summaries of assigned reading and synthesis and presentation of data from multiple sources in a term paper. Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Explain the fundamental theory underlying our current knowledge of fault mechanics, rock friction, and seismicity. Audience: Graduate 2. Summarize recent advances in topics including earthquake nucleation and propagation, dynamic friction and the rock record of seismicity. Audience: Graduate 3. Establish skills in the critical reading and analysis of current scientific literature via classroom discussion. Audience: Graduate 4. Show independent skills in scientific reasoning and advanced analysis of cutting-edge research in the field via construction of a term paper on a topic that involves or is relevant to their own research. Audience: Graduate 5. Illustrate the development of skills in scientific writing via both one-page summaries of assigned reading and synthesis and presentation of data from multiple sources in a term paper. Audience: Graduate