EES-122 Structural Geology

General information

Textbook
Structural Geology; Principles, Concepts and Problems. By Robert D. Hatcher Jr (2nd edition, Prentice Hall, 1995)

Layout of classes
Classes will usually consist of a 45 minute to one hour lecture. The lecture will be followed by a session in which the new exercises are introduced and in which previous exercises and other subjects regarding the course material may be discussed. I may decide to change this layout or the course schedule (as outlined below), in case I find it necessary.

Other materials needed
To complete the exercises, you will need to supply a ruler/protractor (with a millimeter scale), a (mechanical) pencil, pocket calculator, a small set of color pencils, and a pair of compasses. You can purchase these items at the GWU bookstore, or Office Max / Staples.

Required work
Completion of exercises and exams. Handouts of exercises will be given out during or at the end of classes. The exercises must be handed in at the start of the class, and will be returned to you the following week. There may be reading or other additional assignments.

Grades

Exercises	20%
Midterm examination	30%	Covering chapters 1 - 10 from Hatcher, and exercise sets 1 - 3.
Final examination	40%	See note below
Attendance and attitude	10%

Exams
The exams will cover all material covered in the course: lecture notes, the textbook, additional reading, and exercises. The final exam will be comprehensive. The book is primarily for you to better understand or clarify some concepts discussed in my lectures. I will also discuss material in class that is not covered in the book, and vice versa.
In principle no make-up exams will be given. The final exam will be on Monday December 17th at 11 am (Bell 105, about 2 hours duration).

Note
In this course we will use SI-units (metric!)

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Revised course schedule

Note on return of the final exam

Today I will submit the final grades. The graded exams and the answers can be picked up from my mailbox in the secretary's office. All these materials will be removed by the end of January 2002.
Thanks very much, and happy holidays.

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Downloads

Pdf-documents (printable from Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 and up) of exercise sets and answers, and a link to the download site of Stereonett, a shareware stereoplot program for Windows.

Homework
Click here to download the Acrobat Reader.

Exercise set 1 (423 kb)	Answers to exercise set 1 (216 kb)
Exercise set 2 (3.7 Mb)	Answers to exercise set 2 (1.3 Mb)
Exercise set 3 (968 kb)	Answers to exercise set 3 (552 kb)
Exercise set 4 (1.4 Mb)	Answers to exercise set 4 (1.3 Mb)
Exercise set 5 (17 Kb)	Answers to exercise set 5 (32 kb)
Exercise set 6, 7 and 8, and the answer sets will not become downloadable

Stereonett
Stereonett is a stereoplot program for Windows. The program was written by Johannes Duyster from the Ruhr University Bochum (Germany), and it is free for academic users. A zipfile of Stereonett can be downloaded. The program Winzip, needed to unpack the file, can be downloaded for free as well.

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Contact information

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