- structure of subduction zones and active margins
- structure of passive margins, rifting
- properties of plates and plate margins

Students should develop a basic understanding of
- structures of subduction zone and its controlling factors
- physical models of lithopsheric flexure at subduction zones

Presentation of solved problems

seminar talk

Watts, T. (2003) Isostasy and Flexure of the Lithosphere, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge

Turcotte, D. and Schubert G. (2002) Geodynamics, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge