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Includes many workedout examples and numerous maps, photographs, drawings, and diagrams. Introduction to structural geology structural geology. Structural geology aims to characterise deformation structures geometry. Tectonics and structural geology provide an understanding of the subsidence, folding and uplift responsible for the creation and dynamic history of a basin. The book is thorough and comprehensive and its advantage over many other books is. An introduction to geometrical techniques, fourth edition this combination of text and lab book presents an entirely different approach to structural geology. An introduction to geometrical techniques ed 4 english isbn. Deformation is the change in shape, position andor volume of an object in response to applied forces. Publication date 1973 topics geology, structural, tectonique.
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