1. STUDYING NEOTECTONICS WITH PLATE MOTION, SEISMOLOGICAL & GPS DATA: THEORY & PRACTICE Seth Stein, Northwestern University

2. INTEGRATE COMPLEMENTARY TECHNIQUES TO STUDY LITHOSPHERIC DEFORMATION Each have strengths & weaknesses Important to understand what can & can’t do Jointly give valuable insight

3. Introduction Plate tectonics, relative plate motions Absolute plate motions Earthquakes: fundamental concepts & focal mechanisms Earthquakes: waveform modeling, moment tensors & source parameters Tectonic geodesy Earthquake recurrence & hazards Spreading centers, Subduction zones & driving forces Plate boundary zones & changes in plate motions Plate interiors Faulting & deformation in the lithosphere

4. Class notes: http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/people/seth/Lectures Most material from Stein, S. and M. Wysession, Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure, Blackwell Publishing, 2003.

5. Studying the lithosphere involves integrating plate tectonics, seismology, geodesy, geology, rock mechanics, thermal studies, modeling and much more No clear dividing lines between subfields “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” John Muir “Half of what we will teach you in the next few years is wrong. The problem is we don’t know which half” Medical school dean to incoming students