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A question of attitude : Making and recording strike, dip, trend, plunge and pitch.

A question of attitude : Making and recording strike, dip, trend, plunge and pitch.

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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