Hibler, R.C., 1999, Mechanics of Materials, Prentice Hall (with student disk).
Smith, R. B., 1997, Introduction to Tectonophysics and Elastic Waves, notes available on class web site. http://www.mines.utah.edu/~rbsmith/TEACHING/GG5210/gg5210.html
Stein, S., and M. Wysession, 2002, Introduction To Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure, Blackwell, 498p. Sections of the book will be used in class.
Turcotte, D.L. and G. Schubert, 2002, Geodynamics, J. Wiley and Sons, 2nd addition. This book will be used primarily for the first part of the course.
References (Available in the Marriott Library reserve section or in instructors office):
Fung, Y.C., 1977, A First Course In Continuum Mechanics, Prentice Hall, Inc. (The standard continuum mechanics text for engineering).
Malvern, L., 1969, Introduction to mechanics of a continuous medium, Prentice-Hall, 713 pp.
Means, W.D., 1976, Stress and Strain, Springer-Verlag (One of the first texts to treat structural geologically from basic stress and strain theory).
Ranalli, G., 1995, Rheology of the Earth, Chapman and Hall, 2nd Edition.
Sheriff, R.E. and L.P. Geldart, 1982, Exploration Seismology, Volume 1, History, Theory, and Data Acquisition, Cambridge University Press (A good and simple review of wave transmission and traveltime equations).
Timoshenko. S. P., and J. M. Gere, 1997, Mechanics of materials, PWS Publishing Co., 912 pp.
Twiss R.J. and E.M. Moores, 1992, Structural Geology, W.H> Freeman and Co. (This book has new approaches to numerical calculations in stress and strain.
Wallace, T. C. and T. Lay, 1995, Modern global seismology, Academic Press.
Samizat Press (online free press): http://samizdat.mines.edu/
Backus, G, Continuum Mechanics
Kennett, B., Continuum Mechanics
Sneider, R. A Guided Tour of Mathematical Physics