If you want to take the exam on Saturday or Sunday, arrangements must be made in advance. The final exam is cumulative and will cover all lectures and all assigned readings . The questions below relate to material covered in class after the second term test. Describe four mechanisms by which rock cleavage forms. Describe three different types of lineations.
Steps often occur in strike-slip faults.
A step to the right. Brittle deformation produces grain-scale rock fabrics that are very different from those produced by plastic deformation. Compare and contract the fabrics formed by brittle and plastic deformation. Describe 3 hand-sample scale features that can be used to determine the sense of shear in mylonitic rocks. Thrust faults commonly form in layered sedimentary rocks.