Tectonics
This course by Dr. Laura Webb taught an introduction to the finer points of tectonic theory with practicums and assignments using real data, culminating in a research paper using available data to investigate the tectonic setting of an area of interest - for me this was West Antarctica.
Topics covered in this course included:
Focal Mechanisms - applications using GeoMapApp to decipher tectonic contacts in the Mediterranean
Continental Drift - applications using UNAVCO and Jules Verne Voyager
Tectonic Margins - applications with movement rates and triple junctions : transpression/transtension
Relative Strength - geotherms at different margin types, and differing lithology analysis
Orogenesis - History of the Green Mountains and North America. Subduction melt.
Rifting - rift marginal mountains in the East African Rift System
Anisotropic Tomography - seismology, hotspots, rifting, EarthScope
Final Paper, Undergraduate Writing Sample