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Due to migration of article submission systems, please check the status of your submitted manuscript in the relevant system below. Deformation is the change in shape, position andor volume of an object in response to applied forces. Structural geology by haakon fossen cambridge university press. The benefit of minor structures striated fault planes, vein arrays and brittle. Solutions to the exercises are available to instructors. Current topics in structural geology is a collection of invited papers on particular topics of interest in structural geology, from fieldbased problems on the scale of terranes to microstructures in nature and experiment. An event on a seiscrop section displays local strike, a property which permits direct contouring of a structural surface without any timing and posting.
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