TECTONICS AND OROGENY

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(Slashed with ESCI 41080 and ESCI 51080 ) This course examines the forces that drive plate motions and mountain building; techniques for reconstructing those motions over a range of time scales; and how the lithosphere deforms and drives rock creation and destruction at plate boundaries, particularly in the Western United States and Appalachians. Required field trip to the Appalachians.