Credit Weight: 0.5 Prerequisite(s): Geology 1111, 1131, 2310 and 2318 or permission of the instructor Description: Response of rocks to stress, phenomenological models, strain estimates, strain histories and their interpretation. Orientation-distributions of grains and the origin of anisotropic petrofabrics. Three-dimensional representation and interpretation of orientation data (sterograms) manually and by computer. Structural mapping techniques in metamorphic and other terranes. Structural procedures adapted for specific tectonic environments. Offering: 3-2; or 3-2

Geology 3310 Structural Geology and Tectonics

Credit Weight: 0.5 Prerequisite(s): Geology 1111, 1131, 2310 and 2318 or permission of the instructor Description: Response of rocks to stress, phenomenological models, strain estimates, strain histories and their interpretation. Orientation-distributions of grains and the origin of anisotropic petrofabrics. Three-dimensional representation and interpretation of orientation data (sterograms) manually and by computer. Structural mapping techniques in metamorphic and other terranes. Structural procedures adapted for specific tectonic environments. Offering: 3-2; or 3-2





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