WEEKLY SUBJECT |
DATE |
READING |
DISCUSSION LEADER |
NOTES & ASSIGNMENTS |
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Course organization and Lecture 1: Introduction to Active Tectonics |
08/27 |
For very basic background read Keller
and Pinter, 2002, p. 1-47 |
By 09/05: (1) Introduction to Matlab |
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| Structure and
Strength of Earth's Lithosphere: Lecture 2: Constitutive properties of faults |
08/29-09/05
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Yeats et al., Ch. 2 (p. 17-29 only) For review of mathematical description of stress or strain read Segall (2005), (sections 1.3-1.5 & 1.8 only). This is Chapter 1 in Segall 2010 book. |
No class on Labor Day (09/03) |
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| Work Day (no lecture due to SCEC meeting) | 09/10 |
Complete assigned reading, do part 1 of Assignment 2, and explore ideas for your own course project. |
Roland at SCEC meeting By 09/19: (2) Crustal Rheology and Strength |
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Discussion: Weak and strong fault
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~45 min on 09/12 |
Scholz, 2000 Zoback, 2000 and Scholz, 2000 |
Darren |
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| Lecture 3: Crustal structure and constitutive properties of rocks | 09/12
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Yeats et al., Ch. 3 (p. 42-58) Bürgmann & Dresen, 2007, p. 531-543. |
E-mail your proposed research project title and brief summary. |
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09/17&19 |
Scholz, 1998 |
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Discussion: Rheology of continental lithosphere |
09/19 |
Jackson, 2002 Burov and Watts, 2006 |
Ellis |
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| How the Earth Deforms:
Lecture 5: Deformation |
09/24 |
Segall (2005), read sections 1.1, 1.2 |
By 10/01: (3) Deformation and strain exercise |
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| Measuring
Active Deformation:
(a) Terrestrial Geodesy: Lecture 6: Terrestrial geodetic methods and observations |
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Bürgmann & Thatcher, 2013, p. 1-7 |
By 10/10: (4) Displacements and strain from terrestrial geodesy |
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| (b) Space
Geodetic Methods: Lecture 7: VLBI, SLR GPS: theory, interpretation and examples. Seafloor geodesy. |
10/03 & 10 |
Bürgmann & Thatcher, 2013, p. 7-18 |
By 10/22: Write a first draft of the Introduction/Motivation portion of your paper. Discuss steps you plan to take to carry out the work and provide an updated list of relevant references. | |
| Work Day, no lecture | 10/08 |
Complete assigned reading, complete Assignment 4 due 10/10, and push forward with your course projects. |
Roland at Caltech rupture source workshop |
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Discussion: Intra-plate deformation. New Madrid strain and seismic hazard (or not?) |
10/15 |
Smalley et al., 2005 and related News and Views (Tuttle), Comment and Reply (Calais et al.), Smalley and Ellis, 2008, and Calais and Stein, 2009 | Rodrigo |
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10/15 |
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| InSAR Tutorial with Kang | 10/17 |
Kang's GMTSAR_tutorial lecture GMTSAR Manual and information: http://topex.ucsd.edu/gmtsar |
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10/22 & 24 |
By 10/29: (5) Dislocation modeling of Hayward fault |
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| The Earthquake
Cycle:
Lecture 9: Models of the earthquake cycle |
10/24-31 |
Segall (2005, Ch. 2) Bürgmann & Dresen, 2007 p. 544-567. |
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Earthquake Geology: |
11/05 & 07 |
Selected reading from Burbank & Anderson (2001) Chapters 2 (p.26-32), 3 (p.38-44;47-52), 4 (p. 57-60), and 6 (p.107-114). Here is all of Chapter 6 from Burbank & Anderson (2001). |
By 11/14: (6) Earthquake Geology |
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Discussion: Paleoseismology, fault slip rates and the earthquake cycle |
11/07 |
Weldon et al.,
2004 Dolan et al., 2007 & Yeats perspective |
Matt &Joshua |
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| 11/14 Classes cancelled on M 11/19! |
Wobus et al. 2006 |
By 11/28: (7) Scarp Erosion Exercise |
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Lecture 12 and Lecture 12B: Modeling Interaction of tectonics, climate and topography |
11/26&28 |
Burbank & Anderson, 2001, Ch. 11 |
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| Course project presentations |
11/28 |
15 minutes each. |
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FINAL PAPER DUE |
12/12 |
Most recent update: November 19, 2018