Announcements | Syllabus | Schedule | Weekly lecture notes | GLG310 Labs | Links |
Date | Topic |
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Week 1: 8/24 & 26 | Introduction to Structural Geology (1) Introduction to Structural Geology (2) |
Week 2: 8/31 & 9/2 | Introduction to Structural Geology (2) and Deformation (1) Deformation (2) |
Week 3: 9/6 & 9/8 | Force, stress, fractures |
Week 4: 9/14 & 9/16 | Stress and tractions |
Week 5: 9/21 & 9/23 | Sandbox experiment (see pages 307-309 in D+R) Meeting with Dept. Chairman and Brunton compass introduction |
Week 6: 9/28 | Stress and faulting (Continue Lecture 6) |
Week 7: 10/5 | Stress and faulting (Finish Lecture 6) |
Week 8: 10/12 | Stress, tractions and faulting |
Week 9: 10/26 & 10/28 | Phenomenology of Faults Shear zones |
Week 10: 11/2 & 11/4 | Shear zones Field trip to Dreamy Draw |
Week 11: 11/9 & 111 | Application exercise and field trip preparation Holiday |
Week 12: 11/16 | Cleavage, foliation, lineation |
Week 13: 11/23 | Deformation Mechanisms and Microstructures |
Week 14: 11/30 & 12/2 | Overview of Cordilleran tectonics San Andreas movies (from T. Atwater): Pac-NoAm_Intro_Big.mov Pac-NoAm_Tech_Big.mov PacHist_Big.mov |