EAS 4050 - [Active Tectonics]

(OPHLS-AG, PBS-AS) (CU-SBY)

Fall (offered alternate years). Next Offered: 2019-2020. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Recommended prerequisite: mechanical background equivalent to EAS 4260.

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.