Foundations of Structural Geology - Hardcover

Park, Professor R. G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0751401382 ISBN 13: 9780751401387

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993

Synopsis

In the Preface to the first edition of this book, nitions and explanations of a number of import- published in 1983, I explained my reasons for ant stratigraphic and structural concepts that writing the book as follows. need to be understood in the early stages of 'There are already a number of excellent books learning structural geology from geological covering the various aspects of Structural Geo- maps. It must be stressed, however, that geolo- logy. Among these are works by Hobbs, Means gical map interpretation must be carried out as a and Williams, Jaeger and Cook, Price, Ramsay, complement to any theoretical treatment of the and Turner and Weiss, all of which I have used subject, in order to appreciate structure in three extensively in preparing this book and have listed dimensions. therein as further reading. However, these text- I have also made numerous corrections and improvements to the text and also to the illus- books are rather advanced for many students commencing the study of geology, and for many trations, many of which have been replaced. In years I have been aware of the lack of a suitable doing this, I have incorporated many helpful elementary book which I could recommend to suggestions from colleagues and reviewers. In beginners.

About this title

Synopsis

A thorough revision of this textbook, providing a clear, authoritative and complete introduction to modern structural geology. The revised edition includes many new diagrams, and important additions to the text include extensional, strike-slip and collage tectonics, the use of interpretation of stereograms, and elementary map interpretation. This book should be of interest to advanced undergraduate students of geology.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0751401382
• ISBN 13: 9780751401387
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160