UPDATED 7 Dec. 2011

GEOL 3305, Structural Analysis of Hydrocarbon Systems.
CRN: 24502 - GEOL 3305 - 001 - ROOM: PE121
Dr. Aaron Yoshinobu - Office SCI 23 - aaron.yoshinobu@ttu.edu

OFFICE HOURS: Go here. Syllabus: Go here.

Check this website for regular updates to the 3305 lecture and lab. Prelabs will be uploaded here. Be sure to read the prelab before lab meetings.

29 August.

• Prelab 1: Lines and Planes Download for T and TH labs

2 September

• Prelab 2: Geologic Maps Download for T (6 Sept.) and TH (8 Sept.) labs

7 September

• pdf of lecture material from 7 September.
• Additional animations to help visualize geologic map patterns. Each of these .zip files contains Quicktime movies and topographic maps (.gif files) of the features shown in the QT movies. Compare the 2D topographic map with the 3D QT files to help visuallize how horizontal, inclined, and vertical planes produce various outcrop patterns on a surface with variable topography.
  • New River example
  • Valley example
  • Hill example

9 September

• Prelab 3: Modeling rock failure envelopes Download and read prior to T (13 Sept.) and TH (15 Sept.) labs.

14 September

• Notes from today's lecture on stress. Page 1, 2, 3, 4

20 September

Here are some old lecture notes that I prepared 'back in the day', when I was OCD about it... It's a .zip file with 4 or 5 .pdf files included. BUNDLE OF STRESS for YOU! (.zip file) Check out the notes on "Pore fluid pressure and Mohr Circles/Failure envelopes". The other lectures provide some background on what we've covered and what we will cover in the next few weeks, etc.

Chapters 4 and 5 in you text book by Fossen provide additional background on Stress in structural geology.

There is no "Prelab" for this week. However, be sure that you bring a calculator with trig functions, ruler, pencils, graph paper and engineering paper.

26 September

Here are three figures from last wednesdays lecture.

Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3.

REMEMBER, NO LAB THIS WEEK! (26 Sept.)

28 September

Here are figures from today and Monday's lecture... Click HERE and HERE! (power point file)

3 October

Here is a ppt file with the figures from today's lecture.

5 October

Anuzzer lonley day, but no one here but me, oh... (what song is this?)

Anuzzer ppt file on rheology.

12 Oct.

Notes on faults... (ppt file)

TEST WEDNESDAY, 19 Nov.

17 Oct.

HERE IS THE PRELAB FOR THIS WEEKS LAB.

21 Oct.

Here is the PRELAB (no. 7) for next week!

26 October

Here are images from lectures on 24 and 26 October as zip files.

16 Nov. BIG UPDATE:

Fold and thrust animations go HERE (zip file of Quicktime movies)

PDF of notes on Balanced Cross Sections.

PDF on how to balance a cross section.

7 Dec.

Here is the quicktime movie of the depositional environments of carbonate, shale, and sandstone discussed in class.

Here is the ppt file of the geo-history of west Texas. (57 MB file)

And, here's what you need for the final:

1) the usual orange scantron
2) pencils (graphite & color)
3) trig calculator
4) tracing paper
5) engineering compass