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Structural Geology & Tectonics Department

The Structural Geology & Tectonics Department teaches students to elucidate crustal-deformation mechanisms and plate-tectonic processes by combining structural-analysis data with plate-kinematics modeling, including seafloor spreading, through simulation. Students carry out real structural-data analysis alongside plate-tectonic simulation; by graduation, they have honed the judgment to weave structural-geological observation together with kinematic modeling into a unified interpretation of crustal deformation.

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Field-based Curriculum · 14

This department's curriculum is built directly on the GeoVerse Lab research fields its professors hold — click a field to see how it is taught.

Nappe Tectonics & Alpine Structural Geology
Nappe Tectonics & Alpine Structural Geology
Taught through the great far-travelled nappes of the Alps, this field trains stu…
Émile Argand
Fold Mechanics & Deformation Fabrics
Fold Mechanics & Deformation Fabrics
A course on fold mechanics and deformation fabrics, connecting buckling mechanic…
Francis J. Turner
Experimental Rock Deformation
Experimental Rock Deformation
Students learn rock rheology quantitatively through the friction and flow laws d…
Mervyn S. Paterson
Plate Tectonics Theory
Plate Tectonics Theory
Rather than presenting plate tectonics as settled fact, this course has students…
W. Jason Morgan
Orogenic Belt & Ophiolite Tectonics
Orogenic Belt & Ophiolite Tectonics
This subject cluster teaches mountain belts as integrated systems of arcs, thrus…
Eldridge M. Moores
Continental Rifting & Rift Valley Tectonics
Continental Rifting & Rift Valley Tectonics
Using type regions such as East Africa, students learn how continents stretch, t…
John Walter Gregory
Subduction Zone Tectonics
Subduction Zone Tectonics
Subduction zones — the planet's largest recycling system — are taught through an…
Seiya Uyeda
Marine Magnetic Anomalies & Transform Faults
Marine Magnetic Anomalies & Transform Faults
Built around the discovery of magnetic stripes and transform faults, this course…
Ron G. Mason
Rock Fracture & Joint Mechanics
Rock Fracture & Joint Mechanics
A course on rock fracture and joint mechanics, teaching the initiation, propagat…
Neville J. Price
Continental Margin & Basin Tectonics
Continental Margin & Basin Tectonics
A course on continental margin and basin tectonics, having students explain wher…
Peter Ziegler
Isostasy & Gravity Tectonics
Isostasy & Gravity Tectonics
A course on isostasy and gravity tectonics, training inference from crustal equi…
Clarence Dutton
Mantle Structure Modeling
Mantle Structure Modeling
A course on mantle structure modelling, teaching how properties of the Earth's i…
Keith E. Bullen
Paleomagnetism & Continental Drift Evidence
Paleomagnetism & Continental Drift Evidence
Students learn to read remanent magnetization as quantitative evidence of contin…
Edward A. Irving
Craton Stability & Mobile Belt Tectonics
Craton Stability & Mobile Belt Tectonics
A course on craton stability and mobile belt tectonics, treating how the ancient…
Kevin C. A. Burke