Objectives For Final - Chapter 15
- Describe and contrast compressional stress, extensional stress and shearing stress.
- Describe and provide examples of the relation between stress and strain.
- Explain and provide geologic examples of different types of strain (plastic, brittle and elastic).
- Describe and explain the factors that determine whether a rock (or other solid) deforms plastically, brittlely, or elastically.
- Given a tilting surface, estimate the strike and dip.
- Use strike and dip symbols to indicate on a map the orientation of planer surfaces.
- Contrast between different types of folds, based on the orientation of bedding on the folds and based on the relative age of rock layers.
- Sketch and identify on sketches or pictures domes, basins (page 365), horsts, and grabens (page 371). Distinguish between these structures.