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1 Introduction
1 Introduction
to
Structural Geology
IMPORTANT
Please DONOT use your cell phone or any other mobile device
during class hours: Class participation also means that you are fully
present in class, not texting, surfing the web, gaming, or looking at
your cell phone. Doing this during class is disrespectful to the
instructor and to the students around you. Cell phones must
therefore be turned off, put away and not sitting out in view during all
classes. Either one will count as an absent; during an exam it is
considered cheating. If I see someone violating this policy, I will stop
class and ask that person to leave.
Structural Geology deals with the change in shape, position
and/or volume of a rock in response to applied forces.
deformation
final
geometry
Thus Structural Geology addresses:
• Origin and final geometry
• kinematics (motion of points, objects and systems)
• forces or processes during the deformation
of structure’s formation on all scales.
STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
• strength and
• mechanical properties of
crustal materials
(both now and at the time they
were formed and deformed)
The architecture of the Earth’s crust is fashioned by
large scale fault and flow movements in the crust
which may be generated in many ways: