The Shear Zone

Check out The Shear Zone YouTube channel for lots of presentations!

About this site….

Welcome to The Shear Zone. This is a collection of educational material on geology, created by Rob Butler of the University of Aberdeen. You can select exercises from the list below. Please acknowledge the source of these materials if you reuse.

• Geological map exercises
• Structure contour maps
• Example geological maps
• Exercises in structural geology
• Seismic interpretation exercises
• Geological field interpretation exercises
• Cross-section construction exercises

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