Università Roma Tre

The following topics will be addressed: a) Introduction on experimental modelling: what is an experimental models; history of experimental modeling; overview on the activity realized in worldwide Laboratories of Experimental Tectonics. b) Analogue materials and material properties (this session includes the measurements of material properties); c) Scaling; d) Overview on image analysis techniques; e) Building crustal-scale brittle models for the study of convergent, estensional and transcurrent systems. f) Building mantle-scale viscous models for the study of the subduction process; g) Building visco-elastic models for the study of subduction earthquakes.
All the realized models will be analyzed and modeling results interpreted. Moreover, it will be highlighted potential applications to natural examples.

- Geodynamics: Second Edition, Turcotte, D. L. and Schubert, G., John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002.
- Mantle Dynamics: Mantle Convection in the Earth and Planets, Schubert, G., Turcotte, D. L. and P. Olson, Cambridge University Press, 2001
- Dynamic Earth, Plates, Plumes and Mantle Convection, Davies, G.F., Cambridge University Press, 1999.
- Treatise on Geophysics, volumi 1, 3, 6, 7, 9 Ed. Schubert G., Elsevier 2007
- Bibliography given by the instructors during the classes.

All the reference sources are available at library BAST of Roma Tre University.