Hello All,
Before this topic is completely dead, I wanted to return to Liranıs
original post and question. For those who believe that an integrated
descriptive/process/mechanical approach to teaching structural geology is
appropriate, I encourage you to develop and share teaching materials to
help make this easier for all.
An excellent place to share resources is the SERC website
(http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/structure/index.html). There are
already some examples there, but more are needed.
The InTeGrate program
(http://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/participate/2015call.html) is also
looking for teams to develop modules for upper division geology courses.
This is a great opportunity to get pedagogical support and a stipend
(Unfortunately, I believe that this is for US authors only) to develop
course materials. They are particularly interested in a module on
hydrofracking for use in structural geology courses, which might be a nice
example for integrating description and mechanics with a societal hook.
Perhaps someone has some ideas?
Finally, there is a workshop at the Earth Educatorsı Rendezvous
(http://serc.carleton.edu/earth_rendezvous/2015/morning_workshops/w6/index.
htm) about Strengthening your Upper Division Course, which may still have
some space and could be a great place to share ideas on this topic.
Thanks to Ben van der Pluijm and others for sharing their efforts here on
the listserv and I hope that as a community we can develop a set of
compelling resources for the future.
Cheers,
Phil Resor
On 2/19/15, 4:15 AM, "Liran Goren" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dear Colleagues,
>This semester I will be teaching an undergrad course in structural
>geology for the second time. My course has two parts. In the first
>several weeks I teach basic intro to continuum mechanics where stress and
>strain are presented from the tensorial perspective. In the second part,
>the focus is more on structures in the field. So far I didnıt find a way
>to tie the two parts in a quantitative way. I.e. to find field (or even
>theoretical) examples that can be analysed using the
>stress/strain/deformation gradient tensors, which are simple enough for
>an undergrad course and still cannot be more easily solved using a Mohr
>circle approach.
>There are the obvious exercises such as finding the traction on a plane
>tilted at some angle with respect to a coordinate system for which the
>stress tensor is know. But Iım looking for more interesting problems.
>I would greatly appreciate any suggestion, thoughts and references on
>this subject.
>
>Thank you,
>Liran
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