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Advanced Structural Geology - MG440P46E

Title:	Advanced Structural Geology
Czech title:	Pokročilá strukturní geologie
Guaranteed by:	Institute of Petrology and Structural Geology (31-440)
Faculty:	Faculty of Science
Actual:	from 2023
Semester:	winter
E-Credits:	4
Examination process:	winter s.:
Hours per week, examination:	winter s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
Capacity:	unlimited
Min. number of students:	2
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	cancelled
Language:	English
Note:	enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	doc. Mgr. Ondrej Lexa, Ph.D.

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Annotation -

Last update: doc. RNDr. František Holub, CSc. (15.05.2012)

Advanced course in structural geology designated to graduate students in structural geology and other related fields.

Literature - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. František Holub, CSc. (15.05.2012)

Ramsay, J.G. and Huber, M.I., 1983. The techniques of modern structural geology. Volume I: strain analysis. Academic Press, New York

Means, W.D., 1976. Stress and Strain. Basic concepts of continuum mechanics for structural geologists. Springer-Verlag, New York

Requirements to the exam - Czech

Last update: doc. RNDr. František Holub, CSc. (15.05.2012)

Kombinovaná ústní a písemná zkouška v rozsahu probírané látky.

Syllabus -

Last update: doc. RNDr. František Holub, CSc. (15.05.2012)

Finite strain tensor and its application to homogeneous deformation. Displacement field, velocity strain field. Applications to natural deformations.Complex strain regimes: Transpression, transtension and combined deformation regimes. Heterogeneous deformation. Shear zone geometrical analysis and kinematical analysis of shear zones patterns.Deformation of anisotropic systems. Layer parallel shortening. Biot and Ramberg analysis of single- and multilayer systems. Advanced methods of fold shape analysis.Layer perpendicular shortening. Boudinage and shear bands developments. Stress tensor, Mohr circle for stress. Paleostress analysis of fault populations. Fracture topography and joint analysis. Joint networks. Stress and fluid pressure.

Polyphase structural analysis of high grade metamorphic terrains and orogenic root systems. Melt interactions and regional structures in migmatitic terrains.Magma emplacements in various tectonic regimes, concept of diapirism and passive emplacement, plutons and host rock interactions,flows of magmas and homogeneous rock deformations.Finite strain patterns and large scale structures. Crustal napes, strike-slip tectonics and intracontinental basins.