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  Where to find us:

Michael Wysession:michael@wucore.wustl.edu
E&PS Building, Rm 385; 935-5625; phone/e-mail to arrange a meeting

TA: Chris Orth:corth@epsc.wustl.edu
E&PS Building, Rm 377; email to set up an appointment

Objective:

To study the forces that act on the Earth, how geological materials react to these forces, and the time scale over which they respond.


Text:

Lowrie:  Fundamentals of Geophysics, 3rd ed. 
Also supplemental reading assignments and handouts


  Additional Sources

 Bolt:  Inside the Earth
 Brown and Musset:  The Inaccessible Earth
 Burger:  Exploration Geophysics of the Shallow Subsurface
 Cox and Hart:  Plate Tectonics
 Davies:  Dynamic Earth
 Davis:  Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions
 Fowler: The Solid Earth
 Kearey, Global Tectonics
 Park:  Foundations of Structural Geology
 Suppe:  The Principles of Structural Geology

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