Announcements | Syllabus | Schedule | Weekly lecture notes | Links |
Week | Topic | Lead |
---|---|---|
January 14-18 | Introduction and definitions | Whipple |
January 21-25 | Big Picture: climate and tectonics; wedges; Gerard Roe (orographic ppt) | Whipple |
January 28-February 1 | Couple of lectures on Isostasy | Whipple |
February 4-8 | Using DEMs | Whipple |
February 11-15 | Tectonic geomorphology of fault systems | Arrowsmith |
February 18-22 | High resolution digital topography, LiDAR, and geomorphic mapping | Arrowsmith |
February 25-29 | Simple models of earthquake displacement fields | Arrowsmith |
March 3-7 | Paleoseismology | Arrowsmith |
March 8-12 (Sat-Weds) | Spring Break field trip to the Carrizo Plain, California | Arrowsmith |
March 17-21 | Bedrock channels-various ways to have diverging or converging terraces | Whipple |
March 24-28 | Hillslope responses to active tectonism | Arrowsmith/Whipple |
March 29-30 | Field trip to active faults and large scale tectonic geomorphology around Tucson, Arizona; OR Computer lab exercise | |
March 31-April 4 | Fault scarps and diffusion Penck module | Arrowsmith |
April 7-11 | Deformed markers-marine terraces; fluvial terraces Coastal Tectonic geomorph of Peru: Project | Whipple |
April 14-18 | Tectonic geomorphology anecdotes: Himalaya and Andes | Whipple/Arrowsmith |
April 19-20 | Field Trip to active faults and volcanoes of the San Francisco Volcanic field-near Flagstaff, Arizona (overnight) | |
April 21-25 | Tectonic geomorphology anecdotes: Himalaya and Andes | Whipple/Arrowsmith |
April 28-May 2 | Term project and final presentations |