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Strike-slip fault system at Bramber Nova Scotia |
University of Alberta: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
EAS 233 Geologic Structures and Maps
Winter 2011: 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!
Instruction
Teaching Assistants
- Rameses D'Sousa
- Sharlene Hartman
- Hayley Pothier
- Shawna White
Outline and schedule
- Course outline (pdf)
- Provisional schedule (pdf)
- Provisional synopsis of main lecture topics
- Structures
- Geometric/descriptive analysis
- Primary structures
- Folds
- Boudins
- Kinematic analysis and strain
- Fabrics
- Dynamic analysis and stress
- Joints and veins
- Faults (revised)
- Shear zones
- [Impact structures - if time permits]
Resources for lectures, labs, and tests
New: Information on earthquake off Honshu, Japan
Presentation from IRIS (incorporated research institutions for seismology) on the recent subduction zone earthquake off northern Japan
The Structures Page
A gallery of images including many used in the lectures
Animations, web sites and other resources
- Cut-out model representing simplified geology of part of the Grand Canyon (Bright Angel Quadrangle)
- 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)
- Folds:
- Structural methods page of Steven Dutch, University of Wisconsin
- Animations of thrust-related folds (Requires Quicktime; based on the programs of Henry Charlesworth)
Sample map questions and previous tests
(Representative evaluative material)
- Sample map problems from previous years (Various maps with folds and unconformities)
- Sample questions for mid-term test
- Sample map problems from previous years (Maps with faults)
- Sample format and questions to illustrate style of final test