Geological Maps Their Solution and Interpretation [Paperback]

This textbook is designed to aid the student in geological map interpretation.This textbook is designed to aid the student in geological map interpretation. It begins with basic concepts such as dip and strike, and progresses through a variety of exercises based on folds, faults and conformities, to include the interpretation of Geological Survey Maps. Frequent references are made to actual examples throughout.This textbook is designed to aid the student in geological map interpretation. It begins with basic concepts such as dip and strike, and progresses through a variety of exercises based on folds, faults and conformities, to include the interpretation of Geological Survey Maps. Frequent references are made to actual examples throughout.This textbook is designed to aid the student in geological map interpretation. The book starts with basic concepts such as dip and strike, and progresses through a variety of exercises based on folds, faults and unconformities, up to and including the interpretation of Geological Survey Maps. In order to give a sense of reality to the text, frequent reference is made to actual examples on which many of the problem maps are based. Also included in the text are exercises concerned with bore-hole interpretation and correlation. The book, which is in two sections, is unique in that the second section contains worked solutions to the questions set in the first half.Part I. Maps and Exercises: 1. Introduction; 2. Key to lithological and structural symbols; 3. Maps 13; Introductory notes on folding; 4. Maps 46; Introductory notes on unconformities; 5. Maps 79; Introductory notes on faulting; 6. Maps and exercises 1013; 7. Three point problems; 8. Maps 1425; Geological map description; 9. Maps 2632; 10. Analysis of geological data from bore-hole evidence; 11. Exercises 3335; 12. Geometrical construction applied to structural geology; 13. Maps and exercises 3637; 14. British Geological Survey Maps; 15. Exercises 3845; 16. Additionl“8