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- Title: Foundations of Structural Geology
- Author: RG Park
- Publisher: Routledge
- Pages: 204
Since the first edition was published in 1983, this highly-regarded introductory textbook has been used by many generations of students worldwide. It is specifically tailored to the requirements of first or second year geology undergraduates. The third edition has been extensively revised and updated to include many new sections and over 50 new or redrawn illustrations. There are now over 220 illustrations, many incorporating a second colour to highlight essential features. The format has been changed to enhance the visual attractiveness of the book.
In this revision I have undertaken a thorough review of all the material, making a large number of corrections and additions to the text that have become necessary as a result of new ideas or approaches over the past eight years, or to correct mistakes uncorrected in the second edition. I have also made numerous corrections and improvements to the illustrations, many of which have been replaced or redrawn, and a number of new ones have been added. The format has been changed to improve the visual attractiveness of the book. Important terms and concepts have been set in bold where first defined, and the appropriate page number has been set in bold in the index, in order to make it easier for students to find definitions.
In addition, I have taken the opportunity to make some changes to the organization of the book by modifying the somewhat artificial division recognized in the earlier editions between morphology/classification and deformation mechanisms. For example, the purely descriptive or factual aspects of fault and fold structure in the earlier chapters have now been combined with a simple treatment of mechanisms, leaving the more geometrically complex treatment until after the relevant sections on stress and strain. The balance between the more ‘traditional’ subjects of strain geometry and folding on the one hand and faultingon the other hasalsobeen changed to reflect changing preoccupations in recent years, and some subjects are introduced for the first time, e.g. inversion and orogen collapse.