GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology

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A Possible Schedule

Subject to Change!!!

DateTopicReading*
Week 1:Introduction to Advanced Structural Geology Chapter 1 (P+F)
Week 2:Introduction to Orogenic structure Chapter 12 (M+T)
Weeks 3-6:Strike-slip faults and the San Andreas Fault System (Geology and Geodesy, and a little bit of Earthquake Geology) various
Weeks 7-11Normal fault systems and stressvarious
Final ExamFinal Meeting is likely
*Reading codes:
P+F = Fundamentals of Structural Geology by Pollard and Fletcher
M+T = Tectonics by Twiss and Moores
Ragan = Structural Geology: an introduction to geometrical techniques, 4th ed., by Ragan

GLG510 Advanced Structural Geology


Last modified: January 29, 2009