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This course deals with mechanics of deformation of the crust and mantle,

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777 years, 8 months

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with emphasis on the importance of different rheological descriptions: brittle, elastic, linear and nonlinear fluids, and viscoelastic.

Course Currilcum

  • Course Overview Unlimited
  • Stress Unlimited
  • Different Representations of Stress Unlimited
  • Tectonic Stress Unlimited
  • Changing Coordinate Systems and Mohr’s Circle Unlimited
  • Stress Variations in the Crust Unlimited
  • Strain Unlimited
  • Measuring Strain Unlimited
  • Mohr’s Circle for Strain Unlimited
  • Finite Strain – Motivation Unlimited
  • Introduction to Constitutive Equations and Elasticity Unlimited
  • Elasticity Unlimited
  • More Special Cases of Elasticity Unlimited
  • Simple Example: Uniaxial Strain Unlimited
  • Special Cases Unlimited
  • Dislocation in Elastic Halfspace Model of the Earthquake Cycle Unlimited
  • Stress and Strain from a Screw Dislocation Unlimited
  • Plates Unlimited
  • Plates (cont.) Unlimited
  • Plates (cont.) Unlimited
  • Fluids Unlimited
  • Fluids (cont.) Unlimited
  • Navier Stokes Equation Unlimited
  • The Rayleigh – Taylor Instability Unlimited
  • The Stream Function and Postglacial Rebound Unlimited
  • Corner Flow Unlimited
  • Flow in Porous Media Unlimited
  • Time Dependent Porous Flow Unlimited