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Textbook: Structural Geology - A Quantitative Introduction

Published July 2020 by Cambridge University Press

Structural geology is a core course in the curriculum for undergraduate students majoring in Geology at the college and university level. Usually, structural geology is a junior or senior level course, taken after students complete introductory and core courses in geology and the supporting courses in mathematics and physics that are appropriate for a major in the science part of a more broadly conceived Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) curriculum. This textbook is an introduction to structural geology for the undergraduate major that builds upon those formative geology courses, and makes extensive use of the relevant concepts and tools from the supporting courses in mathematics and physics.

This textbook contains abundant color photographs of outcrops, hand samples, and thin sections. These, and all the diagrams, graphs, and maps are freely available for instructors and students to download for teaching and learning purposes. Also available are an extensive online package of coordinated laboratory exercises that enable students to consolidate their learning and put it into practice by analyzing structural data and building insightful models using Matlab. These resources are found at the Cambridge University Press textbook website: 

https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/earth-and-environmental-science/structural-geology-tectonics-and-geodynamics/structural-geology-quantitative-introduction?format=HB#resources