UPDATED 26 November 2012

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GEOL 3305, Structural Analysis of Hydrocarbon Systems.
CRN: 24502 - GEOL 3305 - 001 - ROOM: PE121
Dr. Aaron Yoshinobu - Office SCI 231 - aaron.yoshinobu@ttu.edu

OFFICE HOURS: Go here. Syllabus: Go here. Tentative Course and Lab Schedule: here.

The textbook we will be using is Structural Geology, by H. Fossen, published by Cambridge University Press. The lab manual will be available during the first week of the class.

LAB:
24515 - GEOL 3305 - 501 TUESDAY 2:30-5:20 PM Science room 225 - TA: Andrew Whitesides
24516 - GEOL 3305 - 502 TUESDAY 6:00-8:50 PM Science room 225 - TA: Tom Harrington
24517 - GEOL 3305 - 503 TUESDAY 6:00-8:50 PM Science room 239 - TA: David Manoukian
24518 - GEOL 3305 - 504 THURSDAY 2:30-5:20 PM Science room 225 - TA:Tom Harrington
24519 - GEOL 3305 - 505 THURSDAY 6:00-8:50 PM Science room 225 - TA: Andrew Whitesides
27450 - GEOL 3305 - 506 THURSDAY 6:00-8:50 PM Science room 239 - TA: David Manoukian

LAB "PRELABS" must be downloaded, printed and read BEFORE the laboratory meeting time. You must bring the prelab to the lab. You may be quizzed on the prelab material.

Week 1: Prelab (pdf)

Week 2: Prelab (pdf)

Week 3: Prelab (pdf)

Week 4: Prelab (same as Week 3)

Week 5: Prelab (pdf) NO PRELAB!

Here is a pdf on fold and thrust belts as discussed in today's (1 Oct.) lecture.

3 October (WED): Here is a pdf on balanced cross sections as we discussed in today's lecture. Go here to download a zip file of some cool movies that depict fold-thrust relationships and "growth strata". These are Quicktime movies that will run on your computer, phone or pad... Here's a pdf that depicts how ramp geometry affects the nature of thrust faults in the hanginwall (this is stuff we covered on Monda, 1 October). Here's a pdf that depicts "growth strata" deposited during folding and thrusting. Check out figure 19.24 in your text book and see if you can identify the growth strata in that cross section. Lastly, Chapter 20 in your textbook covers balancing and restoration of cross sections nicely. Check it out.

Lastly, here is a pdf of Dr. Sweet's lecture on carbonate rocks and depositional systems way back from 5 September.

Week 7: Updates. Today (Monday, 8 October) we covered fault-related folds and syn-tectonic strata. Readings to keep up with are from Chapters 11 and 16. Here are a few things to download and study.

• Fault-bend fold geometry from John Suppe (pdf).
• Fault-propogation fold geometry from Medwedeff and Suppe (pdf).
• Quicktime movies courtesy of Rick Allmendinger, Cornell University.
  • Quicktime movie of FPF.
  • Quicktime movie of FBF.
  • Quicktime movie of listric FPF with growth strata.
  • Quicktime movie of FBF with growth strata.
  • Quicktime movie of an anticlinal stack.
• McClay (1992) Glossary of thrust tectonic terms (pdf). This is ONLY for your edification. I would only quiz you on terms/concepts that I have covered IN DETAIL in lecture.
• A cool movie that shows how carbonate reefs and mud/sand deposition produce facies that define predicatable stratigraphic sequences that may be related to sea level changes (courtesy of Christopher G. St.C. Kendall, Univ. of South Carolina). I suggest spending some time looking at this movie and thinking about how relative sea level affects the location where various sediments are accumulated. Compare this with the pdf of Dr. Sweet's lecture on carbonate rocks (noted above).

Week7: (Wed., 10/10/12) A few things to consider:

• Today's notes from lecture on ramp formation related to facies and fractures: page 1, page 2.
• MIDTERM 1 is WEDNESDAY, 17 OCTOBER. NOT 15 OCTOBER.
• A few example exams. 2006 and 2009.
• Figure of oblique view of thrust plates, window's and klippe. (ppt file)

Week 8: (Monday, 10/15/12). Yo! Don't forget: MIDTERM 1 THIS WEDNESDAY, 17 OCTOBER. BE SURE TO BRING AN ORANGE SCANTRON AND NO. 2 PENCIL. NO CALCULATORS, RULERS, OR ABUCUS REQUIRED.

Weed 8: Prelab on Mohr-Coulomb Failure Envelopes. (pdf) BE SURE TO HAVE THIS PRINTED FOR LAB THIS WEEK!

Week 9: Prelab on CLAY CAKES. (pdf) BE SURE TO HAVE THIS PRINTED FOR LAB THIS WEEK!

Here's a ppt file that shows some really nice examples of the features that "should" develop in our clay cake experiments.

Week 10: Here are the homework sets on Mohr Circles. Solutions will be posted soon. Recall that these are not to be turned in. Rather, they are exercises that you should work through so that you understand the basics of stress and Mohr-diagrams.

Here is a .pdf of some student notes. These are excellent and worth viewing and trying to emulate in your own note taking.

Two Mohr circle reviews in pdf. Part 1, Part 2.

HERE ARE THE SOLUTIONS FOR the problems 1-6 in a .zip file. Sorry about the delay. My scanner broke and it took my 9 year old to tell me, "Dad, just take a pic of the problems with your iPhone and then email 'em to yerself!" Her dad is a dork.

Week 12: Here are a few pdf's of recent handouts and overheads regarding the development of hydrocarbon basins in the central US.

• Blakey paleogeographic maps of Lower Paleozoic development of North America (.pdf).
• Ross 1986 figures (3 figures as a .pdf).

Week 13: rawscores of Midterm 2 (.pdf)