Category: In the field

June 6, 2021

By the early 1970s, the new tectonics (the plate kind) had established a firm grip

May 21, 2021

In 1940 Harold Wellman and Dick Willett proposed that two groups of rocks at

May 13, 2021

Companion glossaries Abyssal plain: The deepest parts of the oceans at 4000-8000 m, covering 83%

April 30, 2021

Forearc basins are kinematically linked to accretionary prisms. Forearc basins and accretionary prisms are

April 16, 2021

Some terminology for Thrust faults, duplexes, imbricate fans, and fold-thrust belts. Thrusts are reverse faults

April 9, 2021

Basins formed by flexure of oceanic and continental lithosphere; foreland basin exemplars. What is flexure?

March 26, 2021

A fault is a plane or linear zone of displacement, where rocks on one side

March 19, 2021

Stereographic plotting of linear structures and measurements. Geologists are interested in the orientations of rock

March 18, 2021

Progression of continental rifting to sea floor spreading creates paired (conjugate) passive margins over which

January 30, 2021

The rationale for classification of sedimentary basins The formulation of plate tectonic theory in the