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Advanced Structural Geology - MG440P46

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 2019
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:	3
4EU+:	no
Virtual mobility / capacity:	no
State of the course:	taught
Language:	English, Czech
Note:	enabled for web enrollment

Guarantor:	doc. Mgr. Ondrej Lexa, Ph.D.
Teacher(s):	doc. Mgr. Ondrej Lexa, Ph.D.

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Annotation -

Last update: doc. Mgr. Ondrej Lexa, Ph.D. (24.09.2019)

Advanced course in structural geology designated to graduate students in structural geology and other related fields. Basic knowledge of Python-Numpy is assumed, so for novices, the Data analysis in R and Python (MG440P44) course is recommended.

Literature - Czech

Last update: ThLic. Mgr. Tomáš Holub, Th.D. (18.04.2006)

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. Mgr. Ondrej Lexa, Ph.D. (05.04.2012)

Kombinovaná ústní a písemná zkouška v rozsahu probírané látky.

Syllabus -

Last update: doc. Mgr. Ondrej Lexa, Ph.D. (09.05.2013)

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.

Stress tensor.

Mohr circle for stress.

Paleostress analysis of fault populations.