Deformation

Why? 

 Objective: recognize deformed features and impact on properties
 Skills: Obsevational, graphic analysis

Resources

 Tasks

 Reading:

Menzies, John, Sand intraclasts within a diamicton melange, southern Niagara Peninsula, Ontario, Canada, J. of Quat. Science 5 (3), p. 189- 206.

Benn and Evans Chap 5.

Optional:

Amark, M, 1986, Glacial tectonics and deposition of stratified drift during formation of tills beneath and active glacier: example from Skane, southern Sweden, Boreas, 15, 155-171.

Aber, J., Croot, D., and Fenton, M. Glaciotectonic Landforms and Structures. Chap. 4. p. 47-49, and 59-65.
Hart, J. and Boulton, G., The interrelation of glaciotectonic and glaciodepositional processes within the glacial environment, Quat. Sci. Reviews 10, p. 335-350.

Read abstract and conclusions:
McKay, L., Cherry, J., and Gillham, R., Field experiments in a fractured clay till 1. Hydraulic conductivity and fracture aperture, Water Resources Research 29, no. 4, p. 1149-1162.

For 2000 we will do the following:

Describe some sand bodies at Caldwell Park

And answer the questions found in

GLACIAL GEOLOGY - Deformation Homework

 Questions

Sand Body Homework:

Deformation Homework 1998

 

Images from

1999 Index of images

1998 Monday Lab andTuesday Lab

 Lecture: Notes

 Data Collection:

Sand Body (HTML format)

Sand Body (PDF Format)

 Study Images:

Subglacial Deformation Images

Subglacial Deposits

Glacier Parts - Part 2 especially the last three on this page. (simple or pure shear?)

  Data Reduction: Sand Body Write Up (NOT USED IN 1998)

 Data Reporting:

Special instructions for this report

Laboratory Report Formats

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