Written for undergraduates who are taking their first course in structural geology and tectonics, Earth Structure: An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics presents information in a progressive manner using a conversational and direct writing style. Authors Ben van der Pluijm and Stephen Marshak have integrated many examples and analogies throughout to help draw students into this text.
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Ben A. van der Pluijm is Professor of Geological Sciences and Professor of the Environment at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is (co-)author of more than 120 research articles and editor/board member of several international journals. His research focuses on brittle and ductile faults, crustal architecture of collisional belts, intraplate deformation, microstructures and textures, and geochronology, with main field areas in North America, South America and Europe. In addition to teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in Geological Sciences, he coordinates Michigan's interdisciplinary Global Change Curriculum and is involved with various technology-supported educational initiatives. Stephen Marshak is Professor of Geology and Head of the Department of Geology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University, an M.S. from the University of Arizona, and a B.A. from Cornell University. He has served as Chair of the Division of Structural Geology and Tectonics of the Geological Society of America. Dr. Marshak has written numerous research articles on topics in structural geology and tectonics, and has authored or co-authored three other books: Basic Methods of Structural Geology ; Earth: Portrait of a Planet ; and Essentials of Geology .
Written for undergraduates, this text presents information on structural geographic tectonics in a progressive manner, integrating many examples and analogies throughout. It also emphasizes a strong correlation between structural geology and plate tectonics.
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