Advanced Structural Analysis (GS 683)

Course NameAdvanced Structural Analysis
Course IDGS 683
Description
SyllabusShear Zone: faults, definition, mechanism of formation, fault and earthquake, P-wave fast motion analysis, rock types in a faulted zone, cataclasites and pseudotachylites, formation and analysis, shape and size analysis of clasts, ductile shear zone, definition, simple shear and pure shear deformation, two dimensional and three dimensional strain, transpression and transtension, strain pattern in transpression and transtension, kinematics of the ductile shear zone, riedel shears, volume strain, computation of strain, extensional veins and progressive deformation, examples of crustal scale shear zone and their implication in plate dynamics.
References

Van der Pluijm,B.A. and Marshak, S. An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics, Second Edition, W.W. Norton & Company, London, 2003
Ramsay, J. G. and Huber, M. I. The Techniques of Modern Structural Geology, Vol. 1. Strain Analysis, Academic Press, London, 1983
Ramsay, J. G. and Huber, M. I. The Techniques of Modern Structural Geology, Vol. 2. Fold and Fractures, Academic Press, London, 1987
Ramsay, J.G. and Lisle, R. The Techniques of Modern Structural Geology, Vol.3
Application of Continuum Mechanics in Structural Geology, Academic Press, London, 2000