STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

Structural geology uses microand meso-scale structures found in the rocks to elaborate tools and methods enabling to identify structures too large to be directly observed, although satellite imagery now may help in this task. This lecture summarises standardised techniques used to unravel the shape, extent, and arrangement of structures on a regional scale, together with the relative time sequence in which the structures have appeared. Structural analyses designate investigations of geometric features in the rocks to elucidate large-scale structures and tell their history.