Tectonic History of the Western United States

GEOL 5690, Spring 2010

Meets: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 1:00 - 1:50 pm, BESC 1B81

Instructor: Craig Jones, ESCI 440C, x2-6994, cjones@cires.colorado.edu

Text: Turcotte and Schubert, Geodynamics, 2nd edition.
      Baldridge, Geology of the American Southwest is optional

News:

What's here now:

• 2005 Syllabus (includes most basic information about the course, will be updated)
• Announcement of the course
• Links of use for background:
  • Animation of paleogeography of the western U.S., in the Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic (these require the Shockwave plugin from Macromedia and the files are rather large)
  • Ron Blakely's original images at Northern Arizona.
  • Tectonics of the Western U.S. site developed by GEOL5700 in 1999, 2002, 2003 and 2005.

Schedule

TBA

Handouts:

• Radiometric dating handout
• Plate flexure (similar to material scattered in Turcotte and Schubert)
• Paleomag
• Coulomb Wedge (fold-and-thrust belt)
• Stress inversion
• Rheology of the lithosphere
• Gravity, refraction, heat flow overview

GEOL5690 home | C. H. Jones | CIRES | Dept. of Geological Sciences | Univ. of Colorado at Boulder

Last modified at October 19, 2009 10:59 AM