designed to encourage students of structural
geology to use the concept of the material continuum. We also reviewed some “bread and butter”
techniques for the practicing structural geologist
including dimensional analysis, dimensionless
groups, and the scaling of tectonic processes. These
should be readily available tools to take in the field
as mapping progresses and questions arise, and to
use at the desk when puzzling over the result of a
computation.
4.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS
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geology to use the concept of the material continuum. We also reviewed some “bread and butter”
techniques for the practicing structural geologist
including dimensional analysis, dimensionless
groups, and the scaling of tectonic processes. These
should be readily available tools to take in the field
as mapping progresses and questions arise, and to
use at the desk when puzzling over the result of a
computation.
4.5 CONCLUDING REMARKS
151