Solid Earth Sciences:  Tectonics, Geophysics, & Geodynamics

Welcome to MU's Solid Earth Science web server (a different entity from the department's 'official' web page for solid-earth sciences).  The solid earth is a dynamic system involving physical processes operating at various temporal and spatial scales.  Solid earth research at the University of Missouri into the includes studies of crustal deformation and earthquake processes, lithospheric geodynamics, earth structure, and near-surface physical processes. Interdisciplinary approaches include observational methods (including field work), quantitative data analysis, and numerical modeling. For more information on individual research projects, please visit the links to solid earth faculty.

Research Pages:

Research Facilities:

  • Field Equipment
    • Ground-Based Interferometric Radar (GBIR)
    • Shallow seismic reflection/refraction system (40 channels)
    • Trimble R7 GPS receivers (6 total), including two Real-Time Kinematic rovers
    • Total station
    • Schmidt rebound test hammer
    • Portable broadband seismometers (Nanometrics Trillium & Taurus; 7 total)
    • Low-altitutde aerial platforms (tethered & untethered)
  • Computational Facilities
    • Lots of Workstations
    • Lots of storage (> 250 TB for our research group)
    • Parallel computing
      • In-house parallel computing cluster (220 total cores)
      • Access to campus computing resources, too
    • Lots of software
      • InSAR data processing (Gamma Remote Sensing software)
      • GPS data processing (GAMIT/GLOBK)
      • Various seismic codes
      • Matlab and other computing environments
      • Digital image processing & photogrammetry (ERDAS, ERMapper, PCI Geomatica)
      • ArcGIS
      • COMSOL finite element modeling software



last updated August 15, 2019

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