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Glossary: Volcanics

Volcanics

Glossary of volcanoes, volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks and volcanic processes as they relate (mostly) to sedimentology and sedimentary basins.

Glossary: Volcanology

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Conjugate fractures and en echelon tension gashes – indicators of brittle failure in Old Red Sandstone, Gougane Barra, County Cork, Ireland.
Mohr-Coulomb failure criteria
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Measuring dip and strike
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A montage of stress transformation paraphernalia and rock deformation
Mohr circles and stress transformation
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Stokes Law for particle settling in a schematic context of other fluid flow functions
Fluid flow: Stokes Law and particle settling
March 9, 2023
Faults – some common terminology
March 26, 2021
Parallel bedding in a Paleocene turbidite succession, Point San Pedro, California. The thickness of individual beds varies little along their lateral extent, at least within the confines of the outcrop; our view of bedding planes is limited to their 2D extent. The thickest bed is about 50 cm.
Beds and bedding planes
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