Syllabus
Plate tectonics, geometry and kinematics on the sphere, plate motion history.
Lithospheric plates, plate boundaries, crust and lithosphere.
Heat transport and thermal structure of continental and oceanic lithosphere.
Deformation of lithospheric plates, rheological description of continental and oceanic lithosphere.
Dynamic processes, extension, colision.
Metamorphic processes, P-T paths.
Annotation
Plate tectonics theory, plate movements. Tectonic reconstructions of plate history. Lithosphere and astenosphere.
Subduction. Rheology and numerical models.