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Lecture Notes

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LEC # TOPICS
1 Course Overview (PDF)
2 Stress (PDF)
3 Different Representations of Stress (PDF)
4 Tectonic Stress (PDF)
5 Changing Coordinate Systems and Mohr's Circle (PDF)
6 Stress Variations in the Crust (PDF)
7 Strain (PDF)
8 Displacement Gradients: Strains and Rotations
9 Measuring Strain and Mohr's Circle for Strain (PDF)
10 Finite Strain - Motivation (PDF)
11 Introduction to Constitutive Equations and Elasticity (PDF)
12 More Special Cases of Elasticity (PDF)
13 Dislocation in Elastic Halfspace Model of the Earthquake Cycle
14 Plates
15 Plates (cont.)
16 Effect of Topography on Stress
17 Accretionary Wedge - Elastic Model
18 Rock Rheology
19 Newtonian Fluids
20 The Stream Function
21 The Rayleigh - Taylor Instability and Diapirism
22 Diapirs and Plumes
23 Corner Flow
24 Power Law Creep
25 Viscoelasticity
26 The "Elsasser" Model
27 Flow in Porous Media
28 Time Dependent Porous Flow