305207 (v.1) WASM Structural Analysis of Complex Terrains 601
Area: | WASM Mining Geology Teaching Area |
Contact Hours: | 40.0 |
Credits: | 12.5 |
Lecture: | 1 x 20 Hours Weekly |
Practical: | 1 x 20 Hours Weekly |
An intensive, practically-oriented course in recording, analysing, interpreting and documenting structural data from complexly deformed terrains. Topics to be covered include - recognition and geometric analysis of stress and strain in outcrop, ductile failure and unravelling multiply deformed sequences, brittle failure and the brittle-ductile transition with regard to controls on mineralisation, stereographic projections, and the presentation and documentation of complex geometries and histories. |
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