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	Structural geology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Structural geology is a critical part of engineering geology, which is concerned with the physical and mechanical properties of natural rocks.
		Structural fabrics and defects such as faults, folds, foliations and joints are internal weaknesses of rocks which may affect the stability of human engineered structures such as dams, road cuts, open pit mines and underground mines or road tunnels.
		The inclination of a planar structure in geology is measured by strike and dip.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Structural_geology (1364 words)

	Geology - Continental Drift - Crystalinks
		Structural geology - the scientific discipline that is concerned with rock deformation on both a large and a small scale.
		Small-scale structural features may be studied using the same general techniques that are employed in petrology, in which sections of rock mounted on glass slides are ground very thin and are then examined with polarizing microscopes.
		Geology is the science and study of the solid matter of a celestial body, its composition, structure, physical properties, history and the processes that shape it.
	www.crystalinks.com /geology.html (2119 words)

	Geology of the Channel Tunnel
		Structural data were considered to be important both for the stability of the excavations and for long term stability of the tunnels (earthquakes).
		The core of this anticlinal structure is occupied by rocks of Jurassic age, which are themselves bounded by Cretaceous strata (chalks, clays and sandstones).
		Where the structure of the chalk comprises a series of domes, the intervening structural low may become a conduit for the runoff from the dome structures themselves facilitating the formation of valley systems.
	www.geologyshop.co.uk /chtung.htm (5779 words)

	USGS Professional Paper 1151-H: The Geology of Kentucky: Structural Geology
		Most of these structures are clearly shown on the geologic map and cross sections; figure 17 is an index to the location of the cross sections on the three map sheets.
		Illinois basin.--The Illinois basin is a major structural downwarp in the eastern midcontinent, occupying large parts of Illinois, Indiana, and Kentucky and lying between the Ozark uplift on the west and the Cincinnati and Kankakee arches on the north and east (fig.
		Principal structural features of the arch in Kentucky are the Jessamine dome (Lexington dome of some authors), a culmination of the arch in central Kentucky; the Cumberland saddle, the depression between the Jessamine dome and the Nashville dome of Tennessee; and the Lexington, Kentucky River, and Irvine-Paint Creek fault systems (fig.
	pubs.usgs.gov /prof/p1151h/structure.html (3499 words)

	STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
		The structural sketches are intended to illustrate the most representative structures and crosscutting relationships in a core section; in addition, a brief general description of the structures is printed on the VCD form (see the "Supplementary Materials" contents list).
		Structural features were recorded relative to core section depths in centimeters from the top of the core section.
		The structures were oriented with respect to the core reference frame; the convention that was used for the core reference frame is explained in Shipboard Scientific Party (1995) (Fig.
	www-odp.tamu.edu /publications/209_IR/chap_02/c2_4.htm (2100 words)

	Structural Geology Exercises -- Part I
		Structural geology is the architecture of the Earth's crust.
		More specifically, structural geology deals with those geometric elements of the crust that were produced as a result of deformation.
		Terrain analysis for structural purposes is based on the assumption that landscape topography, drainage, vegetation, and soils often faithfully reflect the nature of subsurface structures.
	academic.emporia.edu /aberjame/struc_geo/slab/slab01.htm (2640 words)

	Brown Structural Geology
		Students with a strong undergraduate background in geology, physics, or engineering are well suited for study in structural geology.
		The sliding behavior on faults, whether it is by earthquakes or fault creep, is governed by interactions between 1) the elastically distorted rocks that surround and load the fault, and 2) the deforming and frictionally sliding rocks in the fault zone.
		Using an approach based on integrated geochronologic, structural and regional geologic methods, this work demonstrated the existence of two distinct Avalonian terranes in eastern New England, which are separated by a major crustal-scale ductile shear zone of Permian age.
	www.geo.brown.edu /research/structuralgeo.htm (5863 words)

	Structural Geology at New Mexico Tech
		Facilities for structural research include: a Starkey X-ray texture camera for complete crystallographic preferred orientations, a structural lab with image analysis facilities for the texture camera, petrographic microscopes, and U-stage, a state of the art automated lab for Ar/Ar geochronology, and a lab for fission track analysis.
		The structure group also meets weekly; in these meetings we discuss such things as our current research, any particular problems we are having in our research (a collective brain-storming session, interesting papers we have read recently, etc.
		A Penrose Conference "Faults and Subsurface Fluid Flow: Fundamentals and Applications to Hydrogeology and Petroleum Geology" was organised by members of the Structural Group.
	www.ees.nmt.edu /Geol/Structure/struct.html (458 words)

	Structural Geology
		Maryland, Sidelong Hill, Mississippian, structural and sedimentary geology.
		Texas, Structural geology and landforms of Dallas County
		Wyoming, Lazeart Syncline and Darby Thrust, Structural geology
	www.geologyshop.co.uk /struct~1.htm (390 words)

	THE HOMEPAGE
		Image Gallery:Some attractive structural geology images which you are free to copy and save by right mouse click.
		This website was launched on 5 August 2001, this being the anniversary of the Department of Applied Geology of Dr H S Gour University located at Sagar in Central India under the stewardship of Late Prof William Dixon West in 1955.
		The Department of Geology which was opened in the same year that the university was founded in 1946 was upgraded with massive funding through the Indian University Grants Commission, and later in 1964, through another such funding the Centre of Advanced Studies and Research was established.
	www.structural-geology-portal.com (645 words)

	Structural Geology and Tectonics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The field-based research in structural geology is supported by optical and computing facilities.
		Quadra 800 computer with a HP high resolution scanner, digitizer, and contemporary structural geologic software is available for data reduction and analysis.
		Full use is made of the geology photographic laboratory for developing field photographs and photomicrigraphs.
	www.fiu.edu /orgs/geology/struc_geol.htm (122 words)

	Structural Geology, Union College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Structural geology is an advanced course aimed at the identification and understanding of mesoscopic structures (outcrop-scale) and their relationship to large-scale structures (regional) and, ultimately, tectonic settings.
		The focus of the course is practical rather than theoretical and most of the lab exercises are aimed at measuring, representing, and understanding the kinematics (movement history) of deformed rocks.
		Although the lectures are of a more-or-less traditional format, the focus of the lab exercises is on the structural evolution of eastern New York.
	zircon.geology.union.edu /Struc/struc.INFO (267 words)

	Structure syllabus
		Structural geology is the study of rock deformation.
		This thrust fault ruptured in a Mw 7.6 earthquake in Sept 1999.
		Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology on the WWW by Jürgen Kraus
	www.tcd.ie /Geology/STAFF-PAGES/structural.html (767 words)

	Graduate Program in Structural Geology, Tectonics and Petrology
		Metamorphic geology, high-temperature geochemistry, thermobarometry, Precambrian geology of the Wyoming craton.
		Structural geology, thermochronology, extensional tectonics, tectonics of the Superior craton.
		Geophysics, paleomagnetism, crustal structure of the eastern mid-continent.
	dept.kent.edu /geology/graduate/grad-str-tec-pet.html (346 words)

	Structural geology and regional geology
		Homza, T.X., 1991, Geologic, map, cross section, and structural geology of an area southwest of Bathtub Ridge, northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska: Alaska Division of Geological and Geophysical Surveys, Public Data File 91-9, 21 p., scale 1:25,000, 1 sheet.
		Rogers, J.A., 1992, Lateral variation of range-front structures and structural evolution of the central Shublik Mountains and Ignek Valley, northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska: Master of Science thesis, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, 128 p.
		Hanks, C.L., 1990, The structural behavior of a batholith in a foreland fold-and-thrust belt: An example from the northeastern Brooks Range, Alaska: Abstracts volume for Thrust tectonics 1990 conference, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London, p.
	www.gi.alaska.edu /TSRG/NAKpubs/structurepubs.html (3996 words)

	Amazon.com: Structural Geology of Rocks and Regions, 2nd Edition: Books: George H. Davis,Stephen J. Reynolds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The geologist is enveloped by challenging structural relationships of folded rocks in outcrop; the curvature of back and neck, torqued as eyes and brain move closer and closer to clipboard, is the classic language of geologic mapping.
		The purpose in writing this text is to communicate the physical and geometric elegance of geologic structures within the Earth's crust and to describe the ways in which geologic structures reflect the nature and origin of crustal deformation through time.
		This book is one of the complete books in structural geology in the sense that it covers structural geology exhaustively follwed by tectonics which allows you to understand the importance of structural geology in the context of larger scales.
	www.amazon.com /Structural-Geology-Rocks-Regions-2nd/dp/0471526215 (1250 words)

	UMD Geology: Vicki Hansen
		Hansen, V.L. and Oliver, D.H., 1999, Structural and kinematic evolution of the Yukon Tanana and Taylor Mountains terranes, east-central Alaska: A kinematic record of crustal growth, Reply: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
		Hansen, V.L. and Dusel-Bacon, C., 1998, Structural and kinematic evolution of the Yukon Tanana and Taylor Mountains terranes, east-central Alaska: A kinematic record of crustal growth: Geological Society of America Bulletin, v.
		Hansen, V.L. and Willis, J.J., 1996, Structural analysis of a sampling of tesserae: implications for Venus geodynamics: Icarus, v.
	www.d.umn.edu /geology/people/fsbios/hansen.html (927 words)

	Selected Geology, Links for Mineralogists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Papers are restricted to the structure and evolution of the terrestrial lithosphere with dominant emphasis on the continents.
		Kord Ernstson (University of Würzburg) and Fernando Claudin (Museum of Geology, Barcelona): Research on geology, geophysics, and petrology of impact structures (meteorite impact craters).
		Goran Bogicevic, Department of Regional Geology and Palaeontology, Faculty of Mininig and Geology at Belgrade, Yugoslavia: Boggy´s Geolinks.
	www.uni-wuerzburg.de /mineralogie/links/geol/geol.html (6496 words)

	structural
		Structural Geology is the study of folding (bending) and faulting (breaking) of rocks.
		Another item you need to know in order to interpret geologic maps and understand the structure from them (as you are doing in lab this week) is that some rock types erode easily while others are resistant to erosion.
		Geologic structures are important players in whether and how we find economic deposits of petroleum, natural gas, and metals.
	www-class.unl.edu /geol101i/09_structural.htm (2473 words)

	Structural Geology Resources Home
		Members of the TSG listserv have offered their thoughts on what the biggest enigmas are currently in structural geology.
		Applications of Structural Geology to Other Disciplines that illustrate the relevance of structural geology to geological problem-solving in other disciplines.
		During the summer of 2004, 70 structural geologists from around the country met for a week-long workshop to explore best practices in teaching structural geology.
	serc.carleton.edu /NAGTWorkshops/structure/index.html (535 words)

	Structure/Tectonics Jobs
		The Geology Department invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor (Ph.D.) or Instructor (ABD) in structural geology, beginning September 2001.
		The successful candidate will be expected to teach introductory geology, first-year seminars, structural geology, tectonics and/or petrology, and participate in upper level seminars.
		Teaching responsibilities will include structural geology and an introductory physical geology course, as well as undergraduate and graduate courses in the candidates field(s) of expertise.
	www-personal.umich.edu /~vdpluijm/jobs.htm (3419 words)

	Links to lecture notes on geology
		geophysics structural geology geochemistry geomorphology mineralogy crystallography petrology miscellaneous organizations tectonics environmental geology basin analysis photogeology paleontology gis and geology groundwater hydrology softwares databases, libraries, etc.
		A global study of plate tectonics as a unifying solid-earth theory, which explains continental and oceanic geology of the past and present.
		Global tectonics, as the term implies, is the study of the tectonic evolution of the Earth on a global, or plate-tectonic, scale.
	www.geocities.com /geologyofnepal/links.html (1320 words)

	Structural Geology: GEOL 101
		Tectonics is the study of crustal deformation and structural behavior.
		Plate Tectonics is the deformation and structural behavior of crustal plates.
		Unless otherwise noted, all images and graphics contained within are the property of Richard Harwood and may only be reproduced with permission from the author.
	facweb.bhc.edu /academics/science/harwoodr/Geol101/study/structur.htm (729 words)

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		This is a listing of computer programs with applications in structural geology and tectonics available on the world-wide web.
		This is a set of public domain structural geology programs written by Dr. Gustavo Tolson and his research group at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico.
		Developed by the Structural Geology and Geomechanics Group at Stanford University.
	geology.ou.edu /~ksmart/structure_webpage/software.html (887 words)

	Structural Geology Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Research in structural geology and tectonics at the University of Illinois spans a wide range of areas.
		This work has been based on field studies in Brazil and in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
		These structures not only affect depositional patterns in the interior, but also control seismicity.
	www.geology.uiuc.edu /~marshak/research.html (157 words)

	Structural Geology Geology Earth Sciences Science
		- Lecture notes, slides, and related resources on structural geology, tectonics, geodynamics and petrophysics.
		These materials are useful for geological research, teaching, brainstorming, and seismic interpretation.
		- Structural geology web portal with links, modules, software, animations, feedback, important references, free download, ocx controls for visual basic and information on strain analysis, folding, faulting and fabrics.
	www.iaswww.com /ODP/Science/Earth_Sciences/Geology/Structural_Geology (163 words)

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