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Introductory Field Structural Geology
Prof. Santanu Misra · IIT Kanpur
About
Geological Fieldwork is considered as an important part of a geologist’s training and a modern geologist must have a strong understanding of the features offered by the rock-exposures. The fieldwork program emphasizes techniques and provides training in the field interpretation of structural geology and tectonics, geopmorphology, stratigraphy, sedimentology, and igneous processes. This course will cover and provide basic understandings on different structural features observed in a typical deformed geological terrane. The content of the course has been designed largely to motivate mostly undergraduate geology students to understand the deformation processes operating in the different deformed regions by observing and interpreting different outcrop scale deformation structures in the field.
Intended audience: Undergraduate students of Earth Sciences, Civil Engineering, Geography
Prerequisites: Elementary Structural Geology
Lectures
Week 1: Introduction, field location, measurements and plotting the data
Week 2: Primary & secondary structures, basic litho-structural mapping
- Primary Structures (Part 1)
- Primary Structures (Part 2)
- Secondary structures (Part 1)
- Secondary structures (Part 2)
- Basic Litho-structural Mapping
Week 3: Ductile deformation, Superposed and overprinting relationships
- Folds and Folding: Basic Concepts
- Folds and Folding: Classification
- Superposed Foldings
- Folding and Superposed deformation in Ghatshila
- Superposition of folds in Tentuldanga, Ghatshila
Week 4: Brittle deformation, Strain measurement, Regional deformation
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Kanpur
- Department
- Civil Engineering
- Teacher
- Prof. Santanu Misra
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
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