EAPS 55500 - Global Tectonics

Credit Hours: 3.00. Large-scale motions and deformations of the earth’s crust and mantle: present theories and historical development. Continental drift, marine geology, sea-floor spreading, plate kinematics, the driving mechanism of plate tectonics, mantle convection, subduction zones and hotspots, structure and composition of the earth, the evolution of plate tectonics and thermal history of the earth, and the earth in comparison to other planets and satellites. Prior course work in surface processes and plate tectonics is required. Typically offered Fall.

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EAPS 55500 - Global Tectonics