Part 1 - Material behaviour and brittle fractures
Jan 23    Introduction; material behaviour
25    fracture types, geometry, extensional and shear fractures
27    mohr circle
30    brittle fractures in the field
Feb 1    veins
  3    tension gashes; brittle-ductile alternation
  6    joints related to folds; joint spacing
  8    Byerlee's law; faults related to stress orientation
10    tear faults, transforms, fault initiation
13    fault rocks
15    Test 1 Material behaviour and brittle fractures

Part 2- Faults and folds
17    low angle normal faults; listric faults
Feb 20-24    NO CLASSES
27    thrust faults I - Himalaya, ramp-flat
Mar 1    thrust faults 2 - ramp-flat,blind thrusts, high fluid pressure
  3     folds introduction
  6    folds 1 - geometry, attitude description
  8    folds2
10    folds 3 - fold mechanisms
13    folds 4
15    Test 2 Faults and folds
 
Part 3 - Ductile fabrics and metamorphic structures
17    foliations 1
20    foliations 2
22    foliation and metamorphism
24    lineations
27    differentiated, transposed layering
29    polydeformed sequences
31    porphyroblasts, porphyroclasts
Apr 3    mylonites
  5    s/c mylonites, asymmetric porphyroblasts, sense of shear determinations
  7    Test 3 Ductile fabrics and metamorphic structures
Apr 10-14    NO CLASSES

Part 4- Strain geometry and structural associations
17    low angle detachments, "core" complexes
19    strain markers
21    strain geometry 1
24    strain geometry 2
26    strain geometry 3
28    Test 4a. Strain markers; Strain geometry [35 mins];
             mineral structure and deformation mechanisms
May 1    mineral structure and deformation mechanisms 2
  3    scales of deformation, structural/tectonic associations
  5    structural/tectonic associations 2
  8    Test 4b. Deformation mechanisms; structural associations [25 mins]

NO Final exam

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