GEOL656
Engineering and Environmental Geology
Prerequisite: GEOL100, GEOL110, MATH141, and PHYS141; or permission of instructor. Restriction: Non-degree-seeking students require the permission of the instructor. Credit only granted for: GEOL656 or GEOL789Z. Formerly: GEOL789Z. An overview of mechanical aspects of earthquakes as a result of fault instability. Quantitative approaches on soil and rock strength, instability on earthquakes, landslides, land subsidence, and geotechnical aspects of oil/gas exploration are discussed. Emphasis is on theoretical framework of mechanics of earthquake and faulting, earthquake source mechanisms, earthquake scaling relations, the seismic cycle etc.
During the Spring 2020 and Spring 2021 semesters, students could choose to take some of their courses pass-fail mid-semester which skews grade data aggregated across multiple semesters.
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