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Preface

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Stuctural Geology book cover

Fundamentals of Structural Geology is a textbook that emphasizes modern techniques of field data acquisition and analysis, the principles of continuum mechanics, and the mathematical and computational skills necessary to quantitatively describe, model, and explain the deformation of rock in Earth’s lithosphere and asthenosphere.

Although designed for students, this book also should be useful as a reference for researchers in structural geology, tectonics, geophysics, petroleum geology, rock mechanics, geotechnical engineering, and petroleum engineering. The links on the left take you to the sections of the Preface that describe the book and the author's intentions in more detail.