Earth Deformation PHYC 480 / 581 - Fall 2014 - Dr. Roy
Course Information
Lectures are on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 2-3:15 pm, PandA Rm 184Animations and External Links
The plate tectonics animations below are excellent visualizations created by Prof. Tanya Atwater at the University of California, Santa Barbara. They may be viewed online via the link below:Tanya Atwater's animations at UC Santa Barbara
You may also download and view the seismic wave propagation animations from calcuations on a supercomputer:
Seismic wave propagation movies from Univ. of Utah
The website from which you can download the global tectonic maps that I will show in class (with the beachball-like EQ focal mechanisms) is this ftp site from which you can download the global.tiff.gz file
Introductory and background material (first two lectures)
The background material on plate tectonics and Earth structure may be found in any introductory textbook on geology. If you wish, you may borrow one from me - I have a large collection of these. The slides shown in my early lectures are available below as a pdf fileHomeworks
I will be posting HW's as PDF files on this site -- due dates vary -- check each HW file carefully.Homework Solutions
I will be posting HW solutions (written by Dichter or Roy) as PDF files and Matlab files on this site here.- No files have been posted
Handouts
I will be posting Matlab Handouts and other code snippets here- 3DStressTransformation.pdf
- Bachelor_CornerFlow.pdf
- Bardarbunga_Presentation.pdf
- PlateTect_Intro.pdf
- PressSiever_part1.pdf
- PressSiever_part2.pdf
- StressTensorNote.pdf
- notopo.m
- samplefd.m
- samplefd_time_dep.m
- withtopo_correct.m