• Full color images for key graphical results used
in the text
• Supplementary outcrop photographs, maps,
and cross sections
• A repository for supplementary images contributed by readers
• Exercises for students that reinforce the concepts introduced in the text
• Data sets from field mapping campaigns for use
in the exercises
• Solutions to the exercises for instructors with
password protection
• Sample Matlab® m-files for the exercises
• Sample Matlab® m-files for recreation of graphical figures found in the text
• A repository for exercises and Matlab® m-files
contributed by readers
• Errata
With a laptop connected to the Web and an LCD
projector instructors can use the color outcrop
images in the classroom to illustrate geological
concepts, and run the m-files with their own
choice of parameters for a dynamic demonstration of the mechanical concepts. We envision
readers of the textbook having this website open
on their desktop to enhance their learning experience. Today desktop PCs provide the necessary
CPU power, 3D graphics cards provide the visualization environment and speed, and professional
programmers have written applications such as
Matlab® that provide most of the computational
tools needed by structural geologists.
For the authors of this textbook, it is not
sufficient to focus on understanding the structural history of the Earth as an arcane academic
exercise. We believe that structural geologists
can make important contributions in natural
resource recovery (including water, oil, gas, and
minerals), in the assessment of natural hazards
(including earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic
eruptions), and in the management of the environment (for example the long-term storage of
radioactive materials and the contamination of
fractured aquifers by hazardous chemicals). It is
the authors’ hope that students and instructors
alike will be as captivated as we have been by the
remarkable opportunities and challenges of structural geology. Great satisfaction in the practice of
this science is achieved when one successfully
brings together the beauty of the natural world
and the physical world of continuum mechanics
to achieve a better understanding of rock deformation and the development of structures. By
doing so one contributes to the knowledge of
Earth’s remarkable history and to the solution of
important practical problems facing society
today.
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PREFACE
in the text
• Supplementary outcrop photographs, maps,
and cross sections
• A repository for supplementary images contributed by readers
• Exercises for students that reinforce the concepts introduced in the text
• Data sets from field mapping campaigns for use
in the exercises
• Solutions to the exercises for instructors with
password protection
• Sample Matlab® m-files for the exercises
• Sample Matlab® m-files for recreation of graphical figures found in the text
• A repository for exercises and Matlab® m-files
contributed by readers
• Errata
With a laptop connected to the Web and an LCD
projector instructors can use the color outcrop
images in the classroom to illustrate geological
concepts, and run the m-files with their own
choice of parameters for a dynamic demonstration of the mechanical concepts. We envision
readers of the textbook having this website open
on their desktop to enhance their learning experience. Today desktop PCs provide the necessary
CPU power, 3D graphics cards provide the visualization environment and speed, and professional
programmers have written applications such as
Matlab® that provide most of the computational
tools needed by structural geologists.
For the authors of this textbook, it is not
sufficient to focus on understanding the structural history of the Earth as an arcane academic
exercise. We believe that structural geologists
can make important contributions in natural
resource recovery (including water, oil, gas, and
minerals), in the assessment of natural hazards
(including earthquakes, landslides, and volcanic
eruptions), and in the management of the environment (for example the long-term storage of
radioactive materials and the contamination of
fractured aquifers by hazardous chemicals). It is
the authors’ hope that students and instructors
alike will be as captivated as we have been by the
remarkable opportunities and challenges of structural geology. Great satisfaction in the practice of
this science is achieved when one successfully
brings together the beauty of the natural world
and the physical world of continuum mechanics
to achieve a better understanding of rock deformation and the development of structures. By
doing so one contributes to the knowledge of
Earth’s remarkable history and to the solution of
important practical problems facing society
today.
x
PREFACE