Description

Designed for you, if you are...

• A geoscientist or engineer with little or basic structural geology experience

How we build your confidence

• Theoretical concepts illustrated during individual sessions are accompanied by working on practical problems to ensure a thorough understanding of the principles and procedures
• Hands-on experience by solving classical structural geology tasks on notebook

The benefits from attending

• Structural geology concepts and terminology
• Stress and strain in the Earth crust
• Classification of structures; folds and fractures
• Fault kinematics
• Rock behavior under stress and principles of rock mechanics
• Summery of the interrelations among 3D stress-state, fractures, folding and fluid flow
• What factors control fracture/fault reactivation with possible predictions
• Faults and stress regimes
• Basic concepts of the tectonic regimes: compression, extension and wrench
• Typical assumptions and simplifications required to predict rock behavior under different states of stress

Topics

• Introduction to the physics of Earth crust
• Classification of folds and fractures
• Fracture types and attributes
• Fractures and the 3D state of stress
• Andersonian classification of faults and stress regimes
• Fundamental rock mechanics - Uniaxial and Triaxial tests, mechanical and elastic properties and other concepts
• Tectonic regimes and associated structures
• Implications and case study

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