Geol.733         TECHNIQUES IN STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY                                       (3 C.H)

Geological mapping and cross sections, stereographic projections, fold morphology, fold orientations: projection techniques, fold classification, fold sections and profiles, fold mechanism (single and multilayers), strain and small scale structures in folds, superposed folding, fault geometry and morphology, faults and the construction of balanced cross sections, mechanical analysis of fractures, fracture analysis and plotting techniques, ductile and brittle shear zones, joints, structural analysis of an area that has experienced a single episode of deformation, multiple deformations, examples and labs.

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