Penn State's Structural Geology Class Notes
This note explains the follolwing topics: Parameters of Structural Geology, Mathematics of Structural Geology, Deformation Mapping, Deform. and Displacement Gradients, Examples of Geological Deformation, The Displacement Gradient, Rotational vs. Irrotational Strain, Strain Markers and Rock Strain, Properties of Tensors, Introduction to Stress , The Force-Balance Problem, The Mohr Circle and Earth Stress, Coulomb Failure Criterion, Microcracks and Shear Fracturing,Stress Concentration, Crack Propagation and Jointing, Effective Stress, Joint Patterns, Friction, Fault Rocks, Paleozoic Geology of the Cordiller, Alpine Geology.
Author(s): Terry Engelder
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Physical Geology Lecture Notes
This note explains the following topics: Origins - Universe, Solar System and Earth, Earth Structure and Composition, Continental Drift, Plate Tectonics, Minerals, Rocks and the Rock Cycle, Igneous Rocks, Sedimentary Rocks, Metamorphic Rocks, The Hydrologic Cycle,Soils and Mass Wasting/Mass Movement, Streams, Groundwater , Glaciers and Glaciation, Volcanoes, Earthquakes, Mountains and Structures, Geologic Time, Fossils, Energy Resourses.
Author(s): K. Leonard
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This note deals with the application of geological and related principles to the solution of various types of crimes. Topics covered includes: The Case of the Sandy Body, Characterizing Sand, Characterizing Minerals, Characterizing Rocks, Using Pigments to Identify Art Fraud, Demise of the Ice Man, Radioactive Isotopes, Stable Isotopes.
Author(s): Prof. G. Nelson Eby
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Structural Geology by Stephen J. Martel
This lecture note covers the following topics: Lines and planes, Orthographic Projections, Maps, Vectors and tensors, Vector products, Stereonets, Stereonets, Rotations, Kinematics, inite Strain, Infinitesimal strain, Stress, Rheology, Holes, Dislocations, Folds, Faults, Joints and dikes.
Author(s): Stephen J. Martel
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Fractal Analysis and Chaos in Geosciences
This book relates fractals and chaos to a variety of geological and geophysical applications. This book contains eight chapters showing the recent applications of the fractal or mutifractal analysis in geosciences. Two chapters are devoted to applications of the fractal analysis in climatology, two of them to data of cosmic and solar geomagnetic data from observatories. Four chapters of the book contain some applications of the (multi-) fractal analysis in exploration geophysics.
Author(s): Sid-Ali Ouadfeul
978 Pages
Planetary Geology A Teachers Guide with Activities in Physical and Earth Sciences
This book will be a valuable resource in teaching the physical, earth, and space sciences. It introduces students to the scientific results of planetary exploration. This educator's guide features exercises grouped into five units: 1) introduction to geologic processes, 2) impact cratering activities, 3) planetary atmosphere, 4) planetary surfaces and 5) geologic mapping.
Author(s): NASA
223 Pages
This book explains about the earth and its evolution.Also describes planetary formation theories and builds a model of what early earth could of looked like, subtley using the scientific method and asking and answering questions every step of the way.
Author(s): James Hutton
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This course note covers sediments in the rock cycle, production of sediments at the Earth's surface, physics and chemistry of sedimentary materials, and scale and geometry of near-surface sedimentary bodies, including aquifers. It also explores topics like sediment transport and deposition in modern sedimentary environments, burial and lithification, survey of major sedimentary rock types, stratigraphic relationships of sedimentary basins, and evolution of sedimentary processes through geologic time.
Author(s): Prof. David Mohrig
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Guidebook to the Geology of Barringer Meteorite Crater, Arizona
This note covers the following topics: introduction, target sequence, barringer meteorite impact crater, shock metamorphism, crater rim uplift and crater wall collapse, overturned rim sequence, distribution of ejecta, projectile, trajectory, energy of impact, age of the crater, environmental effects of the impact, postimpact lake, crater rim east trail guide, crater floor trail guide, bibliography
Author(s): David A. Kring
136 Pages
The Elements of Geology Adapted to the Use of Schools and Colleges by Loomis
A sufficient number of leading facts has been introduced to enable the learner to feel that every important principle is a conclusion to which he has himself arrived; and yet, for the purpose of compression, that fullness of detail has been avoided with which more extended works abound. In furtherance of the same object, authorities are seldom cited.
Author(s): Justin R. Loomis
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