NOTE
These links provide great learning tools, and include experiment movies,
animation, lecture notes, software applications, and links to other resources!.
Deformation
Microstructures in Quartzo-Feldspathic Rocks
Microstructures Online - A short course
Analogue
Deformation Experiment
Formation of veins and their microstructures
Transition
of gneiss to migmatite
Evolution of mylonitic microfabric
Structural geology, mapping, GIS software
Principles of microscopy - Nikon
Physics of the Earth, mantle-core
Microstructures, deformation and rock-fluid interaction
Rock Deformation and Structure Analysis
AGU Handbook on Geophysical Constants
Modélisation de la déformation des roches: de l'analogue à la roche virtuelle
Structural Geology on the Web (listed at Smith College, Department of Geology)
Structural Geology and Tectonics Division of GSA
Course Resources on the Internet
Structural Geology and Metamorphic Petrology on the Web
Teaching Resources for Structural Geology
Rod Holcombe Animation Factory
Structural Geology - Mapping GIS Software
The following links are provided by your textbook:
Earth Structure: An Introduction to Structural Geology and Tectonics
Second Edition. By: Ben A. van der Pluijm and Stephen Marshak, 2004
Stress/Strain
Coaxial strain - lines (Rod Holcombe)
Coaxial strain - particle paths (Rod Holcombe)
Microstructures
Antitaxial vein and Syntaxial vein (Paul Bons and Mark Jessell)
Edge, Screw and Mixed dislocation glide (John Russ)
Burgers vector in Edge dislocation and Screw dislocation (John Russ)
Fabric development (simulated) in quartz at low Th, representative of a single glide system,
and medium Th, representative of multiple glide systems (Mark Jessell and Paul Bons)Fracture and frictional flow in OCP (Win Means)
Porphyroclasts (Coen ten Brink)
Recrystallization-static in OCP (Win Means)
Recrystallization-dynamic in OCP (Win Means)
Stylolites (Mark Jessell and Paul Bons)
Thrust Structures
Fault-bend fold (Rick Allmendinger)
Duplex (Rick Allmendinger)
Projections
Planes and Lines in stereographic projection (John Waldron)
Plate tectonics
Plate motion since 750 Ma (Berkeley Museum of Paleontology using Chris Scotese's maps)
Interactive and Image Sites
Visualizing Stress and Strain - Nathaniel E. Reish and Dr. Gary H. Girty (SDSU)
Keck slide set of structural geology (hosted by UBC)
Sedimentary rocks (Union College)
Metamorphic rocks (Union College)
Image Gallery (photos of geologic features and concepts; University of British Columbia)
Interactive Geologic Time Scale (Berkeley Museum of Paleontology)
Deformation Microstructures (Jessell/Bons/Rey at Monash University)
Deformation microstructures of rocks (Tullis/Teyssier/Stünitz at Minnesota); small images and descriptions of microstructures in experimentally deformed rocks.
Microstructures of (deformed) metamorphic rocks (Allen Glazner at UNC)
Atlas of Structural Geophysics (Mark Jessell at Monash University); examples of the relationship between three-dimensional structure and potential-field response.
Periodic table of the elements
Visualizations in Materials Science (ViMS by John Russ)
Visualizing Stress and Strain (Reish and Girty at SDSU); also downloadable versions.
Virtual Structure/Tectonics Trips On-line fieldtrips where structure/tectonics is the main course. Links may be slow and there is no local mirror.Cajon Pass (Joshua Meyers)
Grand Canyon (QTVR image; Digital West)
Grand Teton (Winona State University)
Hayward Fault, California (Sue Ellen Hirschfeld)
Hartford (Triassic) Rift Basin, Connecticut (Colby College)
Harz Mountains, Germany (in German)
Moine Thrust, Caledonides of NW Scotland (Rob Butler)
Nanga Parbat, W Himalayas (Rob Butler)
Oman Ophiolite (Paul Browning)
French Alps/Helvetides (Rob Butler)
San Andreas Fault, California (Joe Dellinger)
Things to see as a geologist (Terry Acomb)
WebElements links to Geological information
Igneous, Sedimentary & Metamorphic Rock Info
JOBS.....in Structural Geology & Tectonics
Image Gallery - images of geologic features and concepts
National Geophysical Data Center (NOAA)
Structural Geology and Tectonics Division (GSA) - S/T info and link to sites
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (Geobyte)
American Geophysical Union and Tectonophysics Section
American Rock Mechanics Association (RockNet)
Australian Geodynamics Cooperative Research Center
Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists
Geological Association of Canada
International Association of Structural/Tectonic Geologists
Seismological Society of America
