2022-2023 Undergraduate & Graduate Catalog
GEO 411 - Global Tectonics
Principles and processes of continental drift, sea floor spreading, and plate tectonics, including paleomagnetic, geodetic, sedimentologic, paleontologic, seismic, petrologic, and structural approaches to the study of moving lithospheric plates. The relationships between plate tectonics and the evolution of selected mountain systems. (3-0-0) Offered winter semester of even-numbered years. Prerequisites: GEO 214 and GEO 220.
Credits: 3