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Faults are fractures along which displacement has occurred. Physical geology 2nd edition by steven earle is licensed under a creative commons attribution 4. Faults fracture a discontinuity or break in rock fault a discontinuity in which one block has slipped past another mode ii or iii joint a discontinuity in with no slip parallel to fractures some opening mode i 1. Lavishly illustrated in color, this textbook takes an applied approach to introduce undergraduate students to the basic principles of structural geology. Major concepts foldsin rocks range from microscopic to hundreds of kilometers across. Onegeology to be the provider of geoscience data globally. Free geology books download ebooks online textbooks. Understanding the details, population of a data sample how rounded are these pebbles. Introduction to basic geologic principles earth, environmental and. Robert pappalardo department of geological sciences brown university providence, ri 02912 mr.
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