David Pollard

Effective teaching of structural geology and tectonics: What to teach? part of 2018 Structure and Tectonics Forum:Abstracts
This abstract page from the "On the Cutting Edge" collection presents David Pollard's 2018 forum contribution on structuring undergraduate structural geology curricula, emphasizing foundational content such as field observations, kinematic reasoning, and continuum mechanics to address how, why, and how rapidly geologic structures form.

Quantitative Structural Analysis: Where does it start? part of Structural Geology and Tectonics:2014 Structure and Tectonics Forum Abstracts
This webpage is an abstract from the 2014 Structure and Tectonics Forum discussing the foundational role of conservation laws in quantitative structural geology, advocating for the integration of continuum mechanics—specifically the Equation of Continuity and Cauchy’s Laws of Motion—to analyze geologic structures through stress and kinematic quantities, supported by field data, constitutive laws, and boundary conditions, with implications for improving undergraduate education and research methodologies.