EAS 4050 - [Active Tectonics]

(PBS)

Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.

Recommended prerequisite: mechanical background equivalent to EAS 4260/EAS 4880. Next offered 2012-2013. (Offered alternate years)

M. Pritchard.

Develops the ideas and methods necessary to understand how the Earth deforms—from individual earthquakes to the construction of mountain ranges. Discusses the driving forces of deformation, and how these forces interact with different geologic materials to cause deformation.