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Week 1:
August 19 2022 | Course introduction
Anatomy of the Alps
Application to Nuclear Waste Repository siting: structural geology at work
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Week 2:
August 26 2022 |
Anatomy of Orogenic Belts
Geology Scavenger hunt: CA and AZ geo
Geologic maps exercise: USGS Geologic Map of North America, California interactive Map, Arizona, Nevada
Anatomy of the North American Cordillera
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Week 3:
September 2 2022 |
Anatomy of the North American Cordillera
SW North American Cordillera since 36 Ma: San Andreas Fault system and Basin and Range
Structural Geology: A Quantitative Introduction: Chapter 1
Introduction to Matlab (very short pdf)
Basics of Matlab: see weeks 6-9
Textbook Matlab resources |
Week 4:
September 9 2022 |
Coordinate systems and displacement/velocity vectors Video narration
Ragan Chapters 1,2,4,3,6,7 for reference
Simple stereonet functions for Matlab Video narration
Orientations of Structural FeaturesVideo narration
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Week 5:
September 16 2022 |
Vectors and Structural Planes I introduction and dot product
Vectors and Structural Planes II cross product
Some vector practice for Matlab
Simple rotations
Rotation Demo for Matlab
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Week 6:
September 23 2022 |
Physical Concepts
Continuity example: fault scarp analysis
Blog post with spreadsheets for numerical solutions for fault scarp models
Force
Force, tractions, and stress
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Week 7:
September 30 2022 |
Andersonian Faulting theory and World Stress map Video narration
Simple Deformation Video narration
Simple Rheology Video narration
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Week 8:
October 7 2022 |
Reading Chapter 5 in the textbook on Elastic Ductile Deformation.
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Week 9:
October 14 2022 |
South Mountains field trip briefing
Cleavage, Foliation, Lineation
Elastic - Ductile Deformation
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Week 10:
October 21 2022 |
1992 Landers Earthquake overview
Homework Review
Field trips review and prep
South Mountains DEM base maps
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Week 11:
October 28 2022 |
Carefree fault field trip briefing
AZGS Geologic Map of the Wildcat Hill Quadrangle, Maricopa County, Arizona
Structure from Motion short course
Faults and Stress
State of stress along the San Andreas Fault
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Week 12:
November 4 2022 |
Carefree fault field trip debriefing
AZGS Geologic Map of the Wildcat Hill Quadrangle, Maricopa County, Arizona
Process Swath Profile Matlab script
Carefree Fault data:
Wells and Coppersmith, 1994
Background on earthquake magnitude
Moment magnitude calculator
3D dislocations
Coulomb 3 Deformation and Stress-Change Software software
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Week 13:
November 18 2022 |
Faults and Stress II Video narration
Static stress transfer Video narration
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Week 14:
December 2 2022 |
Spherical distributions Video narration
3D Stress Video narration
Summary for 3D stress resolution to traction components
Matlab code for 3D stress: All files zipped; unzip and make sure they are all in the same directory
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