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The study of rocks, even deformed, is the petrology if you are interested in its history and petrography if you are interested by the description of their present state. Structural geology is a study of deformation of rocks at a small scale. In French, its translation "géologie structurale" is the study of large scale to small scale deformation. It's synonymous to tectonics.
What is the limit between small and large scale structures ?
What is the difference (in behavior of the rock) between small and large scale structures due to the deformation of rocks ?
I do not understand the difference between structural geology and tectonics. My mother language is french.
Plz see Talk:Geomorphology mikka (t) 18:40, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
Hopefully I got the update on structural conventions right. The first few paragraphs are wholly unsuitable to go before such sterling work. It is a clunky, and unwieldy and on the whole poorly written definition and could definitely do with breaking into sections and expanding upon them in turn. It seems to be a cnsiderable problem with wikiers, who like to cram everything into two badly written pragraphs for brevity's sakes and 'to make it understandable to the lay person'. But that doesn't mean it should be impenetrable to people who actually know something about it. So God help the layperson.
Its my next task. This isn't just random bitchiness. I might even be tempted to go through and append cleanup tags o thins like this infuture.... Rolinator 15:28, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I found this on the Pole disambiguation page. It doesn't really belong there. (It's very similar to something else I've offered to Talk:Crystallography.) I offer it to you to include on this page, or some other page, or no page at all. Up to you! Thanks. Ewlyahoocom 09:06, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
In structural geology, a pole is a line perpendicular to a structural surface (e.g. bedding plane, fault plane, foliation surface), that is used to plot that surface on a stereographic net. This allows the 3D aspect of the surface to be plotted in 2 dimensions.
Who else apart from the contributor has heard of the slickensides being called this? As far as it goes in my neck of the woods (Australia) it is simply known as "stair stepping" or "slickenlines". Besides which, a quick google search turned up no evidence of it and this isn't in any textbooks I've ever read, so if the "Trout Effect" is a local vernacular to some geographic region or some professor's wild eccentricities I'd ask for this to be removed, or at least put into a slickensides page.
Slicks are also more correctly a geological lineation anyway, and this page is a discussion of a much broader field of geology, and should not become bogged down in the minutiae of the discipline.
Thought? Rolinator 00:03, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking to gather comments about re-organizing and writing new material for this article. Here is my plan, tell me if you disagree / would like to help / have comments. It will probably take me a while to do, since this is what I do in my less-than-plentiful free time, but I think it will help.
Awickert ( talk) 02:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
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The study of rocks, even deformed, is the petrology if you are interested in its history and petrography if you are interested by the description of their present state. Structural geology is a study of deformation of rocks at a small scale. In French, its translation "géologie structurale" is the study of large scale to small scale deformation. It's synonymous to tectonics.
What is the limit between small and large scale structures ?
What is the difference (in behavior of the rock) between small and large scale structures due to the deformation of rocks ?
I do not understand the difference between structural geology and tectonics. My mother language is french.
Plz see Talk:Geomorphology mikka (t) 18:40, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
Hopefully I got the update on structural conventions right. The first few paragraphs are wholly unsuitable to go before such sterling work. It is a clunky, and unwieldy and on the whole poorly written definition and could definitely do with breaking into sections and expanding upon them in turn. It seems to be a cnsiderable problem with wikiers, who like to cram everything into two badly written pragraphs for brevity's sakes and 'to make it understandable to the lay person'. But that doesn't mean it should be impenetrable to people who actually know something about it. So God help the layperson.
Its my next task. This isn't just random bitchiness. I might even be tempted to go through and append cleanup tags o thins like this infuture.... Rolinator 15:28, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I found this on the Pole disambiguation page. It doesn't really belong there. (It's very similar to something else I've offered to Talk:Crystallography.) I offer it to you to include on this page, or some other page, or no page at all. Up to you! Thanks. Ewlyahoocom 09:06, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
In structural geology, a pole is a line perpendicular to a structural surface (e.g. bedding plane, fault plane, foliation surface), that is used to plot that surface on a stereographic net. This allows the 3D aspect of the surface to be plotted in 2 dimensions.
Who else apart from the contributor has heard of the slickensides being called this? As far as it goes in my neck of the woods (Australia) it is simply known as "stair stepping" or "slickenlines". Besides which, a quick google search turned up no evidence of it and this isn't in any textbooks I've ever read, so if the "Trout Effect" is a local vernacular to some geographic region or some professor's wild eccentricities I'd ask for this to be removed, or at least put into a slickensides page.
Slicks are also more correctly a geological lineation anyway, and this page is a discussion of a much broader field of geology, and should not become bogged down in the minutiae of the discipline.
Thought? Rolinator 00:03, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm looking to gather comments about re-organizing and writing new material for this article. Here is my plan, tell me if you disagree / would like to help / have comments. It will probably take me a while to do, since this is what I do in my less-than-plentiful free time, but I think it will help.
Awickert ( talk) 02:42, 14 October 2008 (UTC)