Analog Modeling Projects

The analog modeling lab has been designed as a resource for teaching and research. An important component of several courses in the Department of Earth Sciences is an individual analog modeling project. These projects explore a wide range of Earth processes and commonly incorporate numerical modeling.

Students wishing to use displacement or velocity fields to calculate components of the displacement- or velocity-gradient tensors should see the Surfer Tutorial.

2009

Undergraduate Student Projects for ERS 316 - Introduction to Structural Geology

2008

2007

Undergraduate Student Projects for ERS 316 - Introduction to Structural Geology

2006

Undergraduate Student Projects for ERS 316 - Introduction to Structural Geology

2005

Ultra High Pressure Metamorphic Terrane Development Charles Rodda

Buoyancy-Driven Fracture Propagation in Layered Gelatin Félice Naus-Thijssen

Sandbox Modeling of Oblique Terrane Accretion in Alaska Adam Barker

Undergraduate Student Projects for ERS 416 - Introduction to Structural Geology



2003

Modeling the Malaspina Leigh Stearns and Erich Osterberg

Rigid Body Rotation and Viscous Flow Matt Dupee

Kitchen Table Rheology: playdough and "flubber flow laws Chris Gerbi

Terrane Accretion in the Sandbox Wes Groome


2002

Dilatant Behavior with a Cornstarch and Water Suspension Heather Short

An Analytical Model for Lithospheric Delamination Chris Gerbi