Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: GLOBAL TECTONICS

Department: *Earth Science*

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Geometrical aspects of plate tectonics, the 3 traditional types of plate boundaries, instantaneous plate motions, earthquakes and faulting, space geodesy, geomagnetic reversals, paleomagnetic poles, hotspots, "absolute" plate motion, true polar wander, driving forces, diffuse plate boundaries, plate nonrigidity, and rheology of the lithosphere.