Lecture 1
Course overview
Review of Structural Geology organization of knowledge from tables of contents (these are only representative):
Davis and Reynolds, Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions
Pollard and Fletcher, Fundamentals of Structural Geology
Ragan, Structural Geology, 4th Edition
Marshak and Mitra, Basic Methods of Structural Geology
Jaeger, Cook, Zimmerman, Fundamentals of Rock Mechanics
Burbank and Anderson, Tectonic Geomorphology
Yeats, Sieh, Allen, Geology of Earthquakes
Scholz, The Mechanics of Earthquakes and faulting
Overview points:
- Textbooks, lab books, other books
- Geometric, kinematic, and dynamic analysis
- Physical reality and natural history
- Description and analysis
What do you want to do?
When can we do some field trips?
Feb 28-March 1
March 21-22
March 28-29
Salton Trough region for one (GE)
What interests me
Practical things, basic geology
Geometry of structures
Faults, fault systems, role of faulting in orogenesis, fault stability (stress analysis)
Earthquake cycle
Tectonic geomorphology: bridge the gap between geodetic and seismologic measures of deformation with geological ones
Boundary element modeling of faulting behavior
But, I am willing to try anything
My background
San Andreas Fault system (GE)
Stanford University School of Earth Sciences
ASU Projects and Teaching
Assignment for Thursday
- Send in course poll
- Read Chapter 1 of Pollard and Fletcher
Last modified: January 20, 2009