Introduction to Structural Geology

Structural geology is the discipline concerned with the deformation of rocks and rock formations.  It is a field-based discipline which aims at understanding, from observation of the landscape and the geology visible at its surface, the 3-dimensional geological architecture. This eBook aims at undergraduate students and present basic notions of structural geology including faults and fractures, folds and folds systems, boudins and boudinage, ductile shear zones, foliations and lineations, strain and strain analysis, and paleostress analysis.