Knowledge Survey Questions - Structural Geology

Bloom's Taxonomy Level - 1

• What is a recumbent isoclinal fold?
• What is a fault-bend fold?
• What is a Brunton compass used for?

Bloom's Taxonomy Level - 2

• What are the orientations of fold axes in a thrust belt vs. a strike-slip boundary?
• What is the correlation of Mode II fractures in rock mechanics experiments to reality?

Bloom's Taxonomy Level - 3

• Create a palinspastic restoration of a thrust belt where all the structures become listric to a regional detachment.
• Characterize the stereographic projections of conical vs. cylindrical folds.
• While looking at a regional airphoto of the Appalachian's, identify anticlines and synclines, and their plunges.
• Describe the AMS fabric in a mafic dike swarm, and the implications for magma intrusion.
• How are the compatability equations useful to structural geology?

Bloom's Taxonomy Level - 4

• Describe the chronology of calcite twinning strains associated with formation of Derby Dome in the context of the Sevier-Laramide orogens.

Bloom's Taxonomy Level - 6

• Evaluate the evidence for the catastrophic motion of upper plate blocks and the Heart Mountain detachment. What slide rate is required?
• Synthesize the results of various strain measuring techniques, including calcite twin analysis, and the resultant mechanism for plate motion in Iceland.
• Evaluate the evidence that annual vertical plate motions are greater in magnitude that horizontal motions and the implications of this observation to tectonics.