Structural geology

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481Technology / Structural geology / Shear / Distance / Oolite / Geology / Metalworking / Fabrication

SIMPLE SHEAR II Purpose The purpose of this activity is to determine the amount of shearing that a metamorphosed conglomerate has undergone. Instructions 1. Measure the longest and shortest axis of 10 separate pebbles in

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Language: English - Date: 2013-08-18 13:20:46
482Sedimentology / Structural geology / Tectonic subsidence / Sedimentary basin / Inversion / Sedimentary rock / Non-volcanic passive margins / Rio Grande rift / Geology / Plate tectonics / Tectonics

Geol. Soc. Australia Spec. Publ. 22, and Geol. Soc. America Spec. Pap), 245–263 Resolving multiple rift phases by strain-rate inversion in the Petrel Sub-basin, northwest Australia S. BALDWIN1, 2, N. WHITE1

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 22:58:14
483Television / Fold / Structural geology / Sponge

FOLD WAVELENGTH Purpose This experiment is designed to show the relationship between fold wavelength and the thickness of the competent layer. The wavelength is also affected by the relative strengths of the layers. Acti

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Language: English - Date: 2014-04-21 06:06:57
484Structural geology / Fault / Compression / Wrench / Stress / Geology / Physics / Mechanics

STRESS PATTERNS This activity is designed to show the relationship between the stresses in the earth’s crust and the type of fault produced. Stresses in any one block of rock can be resolved into three mutually perpend

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Language: English - Date: 2013-08-18 13:20:51
485Fold / Anticline / Fault / Geologic map / Outcrop / Puget Sound faults / Geology / Structural geology / Geomorphology

OUTCROP PATTERNS Wooden blocks D and to be examined by students F These are very good for showing geological structures in three dimensions so that students can relate the geological map (top view) to the underlying stru

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Language: English - Date: 2013-08-18 13:21:03
486Plate tectonics / Seismology / Materials science / Stress analysis / Flexural rigidity / Orogeny / Indo-Australian Plate / Strength of materials / Fault / Geology / Solid mechanics / Structural geology

Geol. Soc. Australia Spec. Publ. 22, and Geol. Soc. America Spec. Pap), 71–89 Three-dimensional finite-element modelling of the tectonic stress field in continental Australia S. ZHAO1, 2 AND R. D. MÜLLER1*

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Language: English - Date: 2010-03-02 22:58:24
487Geology of Devon / Jurassic Coast / Bed / Stratigraphy / Pebbles / Cartesian coordinate system / Joint / Budleigh Salterton / Geology / Structural geology / Sedimentology

THE SHAPE OF PEBBLES Purpose To see if the shape of a set of pebbles is controlled by the bedding planes within the pebble. Background information When a rock breaks the fractures will be controlled by any planes of

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Language: English - Date: 2013-08-18 13:19:55
488Structural geology / Plate tectonics / Geology of Japan / Nankai Trough / Earthquake / Aftershock / Focal mechanism / Fault / Seismic source / Geology / Seismology / Mechanics

Earth Planets Space, 53, 793–803, 2001 Co-seismic slip, post-seismic slip, and aftershocks associated with two large earthquakes in 1996 in Hyuga-nada, Japan Yuji Yagi1 , Masayuki Kikuchi1 , and Takeshi Sagiya2 1 Eart

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Language: English - Date: 2002-02-03 19:31:54
489Igneous rocks / Granulite / Structural geology / Amphibolite / Myrmekite / Diorite / Basalt / Petrology / Metamorphic petrology / Metamorphic rocks

Journal of the Czech Geological Society 48/1–High-K Gabbros Related to the durbachites (Jihlava Massif, Moldanubian Zone)

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Language: English - Date: 2006-02-27 18:46:52
490Orogeny / Carboniferous / Devonian / Bohemian Massif / Variscan orogeny / Massif / Fold / Compression / Geology / Structural geology / Geology of Europe

Principal stress axes orientations in the NE part of the Bohemia Massif during Cainozoic – present knowledge, difficulties and

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Language: English - Date: 2012-06-21 13:37:51
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