Geological Musings

Rock deformation experiments of rocks loaded to failure under triaxial compression demonstrate symmetrical orientation of fractures wit...

Fault-propagation folds are produced by deformation that takes place just in front of the propagating fault. The fault tip propagates upsec...

Deformation is a change in form or shape. Rock masses can be translated or rotated as rigid units during deformation, without any internal ...

I'm not very patient, and I will spend more time trying to fiddle with a program to get it to do what I want rather than read through do...

Isostasy describes the state of equilibrium of a lithospheric plate floating on the asthenosphere the weight of columns of rock, at some ...

Mechanisms that can generate sufficient subsidence to create basins: Crustal thinning     extensional stretching, erosion during uplift, a...

Body Waves penetrate the body of the Earth travel faster in more elastic rocks body wave velocities increase with depth in the inte...