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Contributions from Sandra McLaren

Sandra McLaren

Sandra is a geologist and Associate Professor, formerly at the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Melbourne, with broad interests and research experience in understanding the evolution of the continental crust. She is a teaching and research academic who has been on a teaching specialist secondment for the past two years. Her first love is Proterozoic lithospheric processes but she is also interested in thermal regimes, fold and thrust belt evolution, argon thermochronology and basin evolution, including Neogene climatic change in Australia.

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dip and strike compass
Measuring dip and strike
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Classification of sandstones
Calcite cemented subarkose, Proterozoic Altyn Fm. southern Alberta
Sandstones in thin section
poles to bedding great circles
Stereographic projection – poles to planes
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Fluid flow: Froude and Reynolds numbers
Stokes Law for particle settling in a schematic context of other fluid flow functions
Fluid flow: Stokes Law and particle settling
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Classification of sedimentary basins
Model are representational descriptions are written in different languages - diagrammatic, descriptive, mathematical, and conceptual. They commonly contain variables and dimensionless quantities that permit quantitative analysis of the physical systems the models represent.
Geological models
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