Structural Geology, Haakon Fossen

Structural Geology book by Haakon Fossen provides applied method to introduce undergraduate students towards the fundamental rules of structural geology. The book offers unique discussion to market programs inside the higher crust, which includes petroleum and groundwater geology, which highlight the importance of structural geology in exploration and exploitation of petroleum and drinking water resources.

Subjects array from faults and fractures forming close to the surface area to shear zones and folds with the deep crust. Students are engaged by way of examples and parallels drawn from practical everyday scenarios, enabling them to attach theory with apply. Containing a lot of end-of-chapter issues, e-learning modules, and with spectacular area photos and illustrations, this book offers the supreme understanding knowledge for all college students of structural geology.

Structural Geology by Haakon Fossen will serve as superb refresher for expert geologists. Fossen’s substantial utilization of citations all through the text, in figure captions, and at the end of each and every chapter provides an fantastic window into numerous in the most important papers within the main literature of both modern and classical structural geology. Viewers will also locate Fossen’s references to absolutely free and commercial structural geology software as well as other sources beneficial.

Structural Geology by Haakon Fossen includes clear discussion using correct detail with ‘big picture’ ideas and broad thinking. College students and instructors who use this book will also get advantage from your stability because it offers among observational, theoretical, and numerical and analogue modeling perspectives.

Structural Geology

Haakon Fossen
Cambridge University Press; 1 edition
480 pages

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