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- Title: Structural Geology
- Author: A.R. Bhattacharya
- Publisher: Springer
- Pages: 473
This textbook is a complete, up-to-date, and highly illustrated account of Structural Geology for students and professionals, and includes fundamentals of the subject with field and practical aspects. The book aims to be highly reader-friendly by using simple language and providing brief introductions and summaries for each topic presented. Readers can use it to refresh their overall knowledge of the subject and to develop models for engineering projects in any area or region.The author presents the book in 20 chapters and divides it into 3 parts: (A) Fundamental Concepts, (B) Structures: Geometry and Genesis, and (C) Wider Perspectives. For the first time as full chapters in a textbook, the book discusses several modern field-related applications in Structural Geology, including shear-sense indicators, and deformation and metamorphism.
Also uniquely included are coloured photographs, side by side with line diagrams, of key deformation structures not seen in other books before now. Boxes in each chapter expand the horizons of the reader on the subject matter of the chapter. Detailed significance of the key structures, not to be seen in any textbook so far, provides a better grasp to students. Questions at the end of each chapter provide a self-test for students.
Glossary at the end of the book is a refreshing aspect for readers. Though written primarily for undergraduate and graduate students, the text will also be of use to specialists and practitioners in engineering geology, petrology (igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic), economic geology, groundwater geology, petroleum geology and geophysics and will appeal to beginners with no reliminary knowledge of the subject.
- List of content
- Introduction to Structural Geology
- Attitudes of Structures
- Stress
- Strain
- Estimation of Strain
- Rheology
- Concept of Deformation
- Folds
- Faults
- Extensional Regime and Normal Faults
- Contractional Regime and Thrust Faults
- Strike-Slip Faults
- Joints and Fractures
- Foliation
- Lineation
- Mechanisms of Rock Deformation
- Shear Zones
- Shear-Sense Indicator
- Deformation and Metamorphism
- Superposed Folds