Total geological history

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Introduction

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the approach
using the approach
contents
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Part 1

Tectonic models

World map

major elements

collision mechanisms

intraplate setting
cratons
mobile belts
platform sediments & basins
divergent plate boundary
continental rifts
oceanic rifts
convergent plate boundary
accretionary prisms
fold and thrust belts
magmatic arcs
collision complexes
foreland basins

Geological models

igneous
	basic volcanics
	acid volcanics
	plutonic intrusions
sedimentary
	continental huvial, colluvial & lacustrine
	continental deltaic & coal measures
	shelf carbonates & evaporates
	deep marine & continental slope
structural
	normal faults
	strike slip faults
	thrust faults
	Joints in undeformed sediments
	open folds and joints
	plastic folds with clevage
	multiple folds and shears
	tectonised melange
metamorphic
	schists and phyllites
	gneisses and migmatites

Geomorphological models

Output

Techtonic models
Site scale models
related case histories
Predictions

Part 2

Approches to site investigation

the method
approches
staged understanding
Optimum expenditure
our approach: project organisation
Terzaghi & Peck
Matheson & Keir
Stapledon

Background Information

Global processes
Stratigraphic Column
Tectonic Elements
Plate Tectonics
Sedimentary Basins: Core and Crust
The Global Tectonic Models
History of the Earth
Precambrian
Palaeozoic and Mesozoic
Cenozoic
Quaternary: Glaciation

Case histories

Introduction

Global Tectonic Models

Site Scale Models

Geological Models

Geomorphological Models

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Last revised: 04 Mar 2001