Techniques of Modern Structural Geology ebook is available to be downloaded here now.
- Title: Techniques of Modern Structural Geology – Strain Analysis
- Author: John G. Ramsay, Martin I. Huber
- Publisher: Academic Press
- Pages: 322
Structural geology, a earth science branch, has leaped over the past decade. This book has grown out of a need to teach fundamental, practical aspects of structural geology to under grauate and post graduate students in the earth science and they have been written to provide a basic text at undergraduate university level.
We have provided many photographic illustrations of the structures of naturally deformed rocks as seen in the field and in the laboratory over a wide range of scales from mountain side views, through the features ofindividual outcrops, and to the scale ofmicroscopic views of thin sections. We think it is most important that the student acquires a sound impression ofthese natural phenomena. The examples we have chosen for our illustrations ha ve been selected not only for their clarity but because they are different from the well-worn selections often found in text books.
We did not want to rehash the classic examples yet again, important as these are, but, in consequence, we do expect the student to supplement this text with other books and journal publications. We have not discussed the regional aspects of tectonics for reasons of philosophy as well as for reasons of space. In our opinion structural geology is just one facet ofthe subject oftectonics. Any adequate discussion of tectonics requires structural geology to be integrated with sedimentology, stratigraphy, igneous and metamorphic petrology, geochronology and many aspects of geophysics. Structural geology is a well-defined subject in its own right, and to do minimumjustice to its range and content has required considerable text space.
Today there is an unfortunate tendency of sorne of our earth science colleagues to put all their eggs into the plate tectonics basket and to consider phenomena on a smaller scale to be trivial details, irrelevant, or even obstructive to scientific progress. To our way ofthinking this idea of “bigger is better” is intellectually and philosophically unacceptable.