3-D Animation of Dislocation Glide
http://www.doitpoms.ac.uk/tlplib/dislocations/dislocations_in_3D.php

Ben van der Pluijm, University of Michigan

This website displays an animation of edge-screw dislocation glide in 3 dimensions. The animation is short and clear, and will be helpful to students trying to visualize this somewhat complicated process.

This description of a site outside SERC has not been vetted by SERC staff and may be incomplete or incorrect. If you have information we can use to flesh out or correct this record let us know.

Part of the Cutting Edge collection. The NAGT/DLESE On the Cutting Edge project helps geoscience faculty stay up-to-date with both geoscience research and teaching methods.

This resource is referenced here:

• Cutting Edge:Courses:Structural Geology and Tectonics:Visualizations: Microstructures and Fabric

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology, Structural Geology:Microstructures, Deformation Mechanisms, Fabrics, Modeling Structural Processes
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Structural Geology