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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Kinematics of plate tectonics. Geometry, determination, and description of plate motions. Paleomagnetism, marine magnetism, and hot spots. History of ocean basins and mountain-building processes. Prerequisites: 202, MATH 240, and PHYSICS 135-2.
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3.00 Credits
Acquisition, processing, and interpretation of reflection data. Hydrocarbon prospecting, structural geology, tectonics, stratigraphy, and deep continental reflection profiling. Prerequisites: MATH 230 and PHYSICS 135-1 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Elastic theory, seismic waves, seismometers and seismograms, ray paths, travel times; internal structure of the earth; field seismology. Prerequisites: MATH 250 and PHYSICS 135-2.
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3.00 Credits
Earthquakes: location, characteristics, origin, mechanism, and relation to plate motions; seismic hazard. Prerequisites: MATH 250 and PHYSICS 135-2.
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3.00 Credits
Quantitative kinematics of distributed deformation within plate boundary zones; gravity field and geoid; principle of isostasy; flexure of the crust and lithosphere. Prerequisites: MATH 250 and PHYSICS 135-2 or consent of instructor.
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3.00 Credits
Types and characteristics of earth science data, development and applications of model types, observational and systematic sources of uncertainties and their characterization, spatial and temporal predictions.
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3.00 Credits
Analysis of seismic and other geophysical data. Sampling, windowing, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, z-transforms, deconvolution, filtering, and inverse methods. Prerequisite: MATH 250.
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3.00 Credits
Deformation of rock masses: strain, fracture, slip, stress, and rheologic regimes; rock structures; folds, faults, foliations; seismic parameters in tectonic studies; orogenic belts and their tectonic evolution. Lectures and lab. Prerequisites: 201, MATH 240, and PHYSICS 135-1 or equivalents.
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3.00 Credits
Sedimentary rocks; stratigraphy; local, regional, and global correlation. Ancient depositional systems; facies analysis in context of tectonic, eustatic, and climatic controls on deposition. Prerequisite: 201 or equivalent.
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3.00 Credits
Field methods in stratigraphy and sedimentology; interpretation of depositional systems, facies models, and sequence stratigraphy based on field observations. Continuation of 330; 3 -week field trip to Colorado and Utah in late August to mid-September, returning in time for fall classes. Prerequisite: 330.
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