Internal Processes and Dynamics of the Earth
Faculty and students are currently using geological, geophysical, and geochemical approaches to investigate internal Earth processes. Research areas include:
- plate tectonics processes;
- magmatism;
- mechanisms of pluton emplacement;
- metamorphic processes;
- evolution of orogenic belts;
- hydrothermal and geochemical evolution of oceanic crust;
- hydrothermal systems;
- thermal aspects of a variety of geologic processes;
- rock magnetism;
- mechanics of faulting and generation of earthquakes;
- neotectonics and seismic hazards;
- origins and characteristics of geoelectric fields.
Faculty: Arabasz, Bartley, Bowman, Bruhn, Chapman, Halgedahl, Jarrard, C. Johnson, Nash, Pechmann, Petersen, Schuster, Smith, Tonon, Zhdanov
Summer field class studying the Wasatch Fault, led by D. Dinter.
Book first-authored by Prof. R. Smith, on internal dynamics of Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks. |
