Structural Geology Activities - Table of Contents

Browse the collection of on-line Teaching Structural Geology activities.

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General Structural Geology / Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones / Joints/Fractures / Microstructures/Deformation Mechanisms/Fabrics / Stress/Strain Analysis / Rheology/Properties of Materials / Modeling Structural Processes / Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity / Structural Visualizations (Maps, Air Photos, Images, Cross Sections, Projections

General

• Using Field Lab Write-ups to Develop Observational and Critical Thinking Skills -- Kim Hannula, Fort Lewis College
• Friday Forum: Reading from the Primary Literature -- Cameron Davidson, Carleton College
• Field Trip Comics -- Andy Bobyarchick, UNC Charlotte
• Photographs of snow bank structures -- Audrey C. Rule, State University of New York at Oswego
  
  

Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones

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• Evolution of Normal Fault Systems During Progressive Deformation -- H. Robert Burger, Smith College
• Maps, Folds, Stereonets, and Simple Fabric Analysis -- John Weber, Grand Valley State University
• Maps, Polphase (Refolded) Folds, Stereonets, and Complex Fabric Analysis -- John Weber and Jeffrey Amato, Grand Valley State Univ. and New Mexico State Univ.
  
  
  

Joints/Fractures

• Joints in a Cornstarch Analog -- Juliet Crider, Western Washington University
• Conjugate Fractures form in Clay -- Paul Kelso, Lake Superior State University
• Structural Control of Giant Rock Avalanches in Argentina -- Barbara J. Tewksbury, Hamilton College
• Cracking and Crumbling: Exploring Mechanisms of Dike Emplacement -- Phillip Resor, Wesleyan University
• Analysis of Sidewalk Fractures --Charles Onasch, Bowling Green State University
• Rainbow Basin, CA mapping project -- Joan E. Fryxell, California State University, San Bernardino
• Mapping extensional crack arrays in asphalt as normal fault system physical analogues -- John Weber, Grand Valley State University
• Fracturing Demonstration using a Hydraulic Press -- James B. Harris, Millsaps College
  
  
  

Microstructures/Deformation Mechanisms/Fabrics

• Using the Autocorrelation Function in NIH-Image to Determine Shape-Preferred Orientations -- Cameron Davidson, Carleton College
• Petrology/Geochemistry/Mineralogy/Structure of Shear zones in St. Lawrence County -- Roger Badger, SUNY Potsdam
  
  
  

Stress/Strain Analysis

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Students measure the strain on silly putty as they pull it apart.

• Conjugate Fractures form in Clay -- Paul Kelso, Lake Superior State University
• Using play-doh to understand 3D Flinn Plots -- Carol Ormand, Wittenberg University
  
  
  

Rheology/Properties of Materials

• Laboratory Exercise: What Controls Rheology? -- Dyanna Czeck, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
• Late-semester lecture/activity using seismic focal mechanisms -- Jon Lewis, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
• Conjugate Fractures form in Clay -- Paul Kelso, Lake Superior State University
  
  
  

Modeling Structural Processes

• Evolution of Normal Fault Systems During Progressive Deformation -- H. Robert Burger, Smith College
• Normal Faults in Sand in a Shoe Box -- Betsy D. Torrez, Sam Houston State University
• Conjugate Fractures form in Clay -- Paul Kelso, Lake Superior State University
• Laboratory Exercise: What Controls Rheology? -- Dyanna Czeck, University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee
• Cracking and Crumbling: Exploring Mechanisms of Dike Emplacement