Undergraduate Geodynamics Laboratory

小行星9351386 正在地质和地球物理系内设立一个新的地球动力学实验室。 该实验室用于地球科学各个领域中具有根本重要性的过程的实验，这些过程代表了各种领域，但都属于连续介质力学的一般范畴。实验课题包括水在明渠、多孔介质、湖泊和旋转盆地中的流动;复杂地质材料（如碎屑）的流动;二维和三维塑性材料的变形;以及经历三维对流的流体上的板块运动。 该实验室是对我们和其他地球科学系中更传统的以样品为导向的实验室的独特补充。 它为学生提供了一个独特的机会来可视化和操作他们以前主要通过讲座学习的过程模型。 此外，通过将这些实验集中在一个地方，使用通用的简单材料，并将其纳入本科课程开始时教授的基础课程，新实验室正在帮助学生欣赏许多明显不同的地质过程背后的物理学的统一性。 ***

9351386 Hudleston A new Geodynamics Laboratory is being created within the Department of Geology and Geophysics. This laboratory is for experimentation on processes of fundamental importance in various areas of the Earth Sciences, representing a variety of fields but all falling under the general rubric of continuum mechanics. Experimental topics include flow of water in open channels, porous media, lakes, and rotating basins; flow of complex geological materials such as debris; deformation of plastic materials in two and three dimensions; and plate motion on a fluid undergoing three-dimensional convection. The experiments are being coupled with computer models of the processes studied.The laboratory is a unique complement to the more traditional sample-oriented laboratories in our and other Earth Sciences Departments. It is giving students a unique opportunity to visualize and manipulate models of processes that they previously studied about mainly through lectures. Also, by grouping these experiments in one place, using generic, simple materials, and incorporating them in fundamental courses taught at the beginning of the undergraduate curriculum, the new laboratory is helping students appreciate the unity of the physics underlying many apparently diverse geologic processes. ***