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Uploaded by on Oct 17, 2010

Describes how to determine dip and strike of folded rock layers and how to interpret geologic maps

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  • thank you, sexy james bond movie lady, for teaching structural geology, may i plunge my horizontal axis into your syncline folds.

  • it was very helpful. thanks

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  • Excellent video! It helps a lot...I would just love if you could be my teacher instead!

  • @farhatjaved12000 The strike line goes both ways, in other words you can describe it using either direction. Some geologists like to use a convention as you describe, you're describing the "left hand rule", where the index finger points in the direction of the strike and the thumb points in the direction of dip, but this isn't necessary or universal. It does eliminate the need for showing dip direction if you always use it.

  • Geology Rocks!

  • i love you babe

  • Really informative..

  • Excellent job van. One correction though. The strike is measured such that the bedding is dipping to observer's right hand side and as such the strike would be 180 degrees. I quote from a structural geology site, " There is a convention for the strike to be the in the direction you are facing if the rocks are dipping to your right. ". Pl. Correct me if I am wrong.

  • i appreciate ,how simply the significant concept is descibed

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