Animations and images on this site are copyright © John Waldron 1998-2009. (For non-commercial, educational use of this material, contact john.waldron@ualberta.ca)

Strike-slip fault system at Bramber Nova Scotia

University of Alberta: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

EAS 233 Geologic Structures and Maps

Winter 2009: web information

This space will display useful links and information about the course. Information will be added as the course progresses. Like the lithosphere, this page is permanently under construction!

Outline and schedule

Download Course outline (pdf) and provisional schedule (pdf)

Synopsis of lecture topics

The following pdf downloads show the structure of topics and subtopics to be covered in the lectures. Depending on progress, later parts may be revised as the course progresses.

• Parts I & II
• Parts III - V
• Parts VI - VIII

Lecture and lab materials

Selected notes and lab materials will be posted here. (For copyright reasons, some figures and other details shown in the lectures and labs will be omitted.)

• Orientation of lines and planes (from lab 1)
• Unconformities and other surfaces (from lab 2)
• Introduction to the stereographic projection (from lab 3)
• Additional techniques on the stereographic projection (from lab 4)
• Introduction to kinematics and strain (supplementary lecture notes)
• Introduction to dynamics and stress (supplementary lecture notes)
• Primary structure (supplementary lecture notes)
• Introduction to fabrics (lab 6)

Sample map questions and previous tests

• Sample map problems from previous years (1 maps with folds and unconformities)
• Sample questions for mid-term test
• Sample map problems from previous years (2 maps with faults)
• Sample format and questions to illustrate style of final test (with fixes to typos formerly in Q 2 and 5)

Animations web sites and other resources

• Cut-out model representing simplified geology of part of the Grand Canyon (Bright Angel Quadrangle)
  • Pdf file

• Geological Maps
  • Geological Survey of Canada: search for published geological maps of any area in Canada on Geoscan

• Structure contours: Subsurface structure of the Stellarton Basin, Nova Scotia
  • Animation (Requires Quicktime - Large file - may take a while to download)

• Stereographic projection
  • 3-D animations illustrating the principle of stereographic projection (Requires Quicktime)
• Printable Wulff net, 15 cm diameter (pdf)
• Printable Schmidt net, 15 cm diameter (pdf)

• Folds:
• Structural methods page of Steven Dutch, University of Wisconsin
  • Busk or arc method of cross-section construction
  • Kink method method of cross-section construction
• Animations of thrust-related folds (Requires Quicktime; based on the programs of Henry Charlesworth)

• Salt tectonics
• Animations from Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at Austin http://www.beg.utexas.edu/indassoc/agl/agl_if.ht

Gallery of structural images

Animations and images on this site are copyright © John Waldron 1998-2009. (For non-commercial, educational use of this material, contact john.waldron@ualberta.ca)