GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Structural geology – The branch of geology that deals with the form, arrangement, and internal structure of rocks, and especially with the description, representation, and analysis of structures, chiefly on a moderate to small scale.

Detailed explanation-2: -Structural geology is a subdiscipline of geology that studies how rocks deform in response to the stresses that act within the Earth.

Detailed explanation-3: -When a rock is subjected to increasing stress it passes through 3 successive stages of deformation. Elastic Deformation–wherein the strain is reversible. Ductile Deformation–wherein the strain is irreversible. Fracture-irreversible strain wherein the material breaks.

Detailed explanation-4: -The primary goal of structural geology is to use measurements of present-day rock geometries to uncover information about the history of deformation (strain) in the rocks, and ultimately, to understand the stress field that resulted in the observed strain and geometries.

Detailed explanation-5: -tectonics, scientific study of the deformation of the rocks that make up the Earth’s crust and the forces that produce such deformation.