Structural Geology research and teaching

These pages are dedicated to Structural Geology research and teaching with Professor Donal M. Ragan and Assistant Professor Ramón Arrowsmith and significant contributions from George E. Hilley.
Hosted by the Active Tectonics, Quantitative Structural Geology and Geomorphology group at ASU.

Structural Geology:
An introduction to geometric techniques
Fourth edition

Table of contents

Sample chapters

Sample chapters

References for book

References

Matlab scripts

Rickard fold classification ternary diagram

Simple plot and scripts/functions

Contouring

Contouring study

Vectors

dotproduct.m
crossproduct.m

Stress



mohr.m
tractions.m

Flow

Here are some calculations for the velocity field in Southern California based upon the SCEC Velocity model (http://www.scecdc.scec.org/group_e/release.v2/)
Here is the map:

Here is a velocity and velocity gradient profile across southern California:

And here is the Matlab script for the plotting:
vfield.m

Links

Math websites

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/Navier-StokesEquations.html

http://www.phys.virginia.edu/classes/311/notes/fluids2/node3.html

Plate tectonics

Seafloor Topography from David Sandwell, Scripps Institute of Oceanography The seafloor holds much of the key to understanding plate tectonics.
UNAVCO--Measurements of crustal deformation (cool figures)

Other Structural Geology Links

Structural Geology on the Web
Davis and Reynolds Structural Geology of Rocks and regions
Arrowsmith Structural Geology links
Active Tectonics and Earthquakes links;
Arizona Earth Sciences
Computers in Geology Course

Pages maintained by Prof. Ramón Arrowsmith
Last modified July 1, 2003