| Date | Topic |
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Week 1:
8/23 &
8/25 |
Introduction to Advanced Structural Geology
Introduction to Advanced Structural Geology, Cont'd and
example of structural mapping
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Week 2:
8/30 &
9/1
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Introduction to Structural Mapping
Coordinate systems and orientations of structural features
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Week 3:
9/6 &
9/8
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Exercise 1: Rotations and vectors
Introduction to Matlab
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Week 3:
9/13 &
9/15
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No class
Introduction to Matlab
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Week 4:
9/20 &
9/22
| Vectors
What is the angle between a cube edge and its diagonal (notes and excerpt from Anton Calculus book)?
Worked version of problem on page 8 of Ragan and Arrowsmith Chapter 7
Supplementary explanation of Figure 7.3 and equation 7.19 of Ragan and Arrowsmith Chapter 7
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Week 5:
9/27 &
9/29
| Finish Vectors
Cross Product
Worked example of problem on page 12 of Ragan and Arrowsmith Chapter 7
Exercise 2: Dot and cross product applications in structural geology
Information on final project
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Week 6:
10/4 |
Physical quantities, fields, dimensions, and scaling
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Week 7:
10/11 & 13 |
Deformation and flow
San Andreas Fault and California Velocity field homework
Deformation and Flow II
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Week 8:
10/21 |
Simple models of earthquake displacement fields
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Week 9:
10/25 & 10/27 |
Simple models of earthquake displacement fields, II
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Week 10:
11/1 & 11/3 |
Force, Traction, and Stress
Force, Traction, and Stress, II
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Week 10:
11/8 & 11/11 |
Force, Traction, and Stress, II
Slope stability
Factor of Safety Homework
Faults and stress
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Week 11:
11/17 |
Faults and stress, II
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Week 12:
11/22 |
Faults and stress transfer
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Week 13:
11/29 |
Faults and stress transfer
Izmit earthquake stress transfer modeling animations
Elasticity and Poly3D
Poly3D links:
Rock Fracture Project software
Academic downloads
Getting started with Poly3D GUI--our demo in class
Andy Thomas thesis--original documentation
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