Planar Structure Strike and dip are conventions for measuring the attitude of planar structures in rocks (bedding planes, faults, joints or veins), in terms of the angles which they make with the geographic coordinates of the earth’s surface: north-south, east-west and up-down. You know all this of […]
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Why make a geological map? Mapping epithermal gold veins along the coast of Sumbawa, Indonesia. It’s a hard life, but someone has to do it. A geological map is a graphical presentation of geological observations and interpretations on a horizontal plane[1]. A geological section is identical in […]
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Producing a geological map is a process of problem solving. One of the best ways to approach problem solving is known as the system of multiple working hypotheses. Something of a buzz phrase in all sciences nowadays, not many know that the idea was first formulated in […]
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