This market-leading book has been fully updated in response to extensive user feedback. It includes a completely new chapter on joints and veins, additional examples from around the world, stunning new field photos, and extended online resources with new animations and exercises. The book's practical emphasis, hugely popular in the first edition, features applications in the upper crust including petroleum and groundwater geology, which highlight the importance of structural geology in exploration and exploitation of petroleum and water resources.

This book contains: carefully designed full-color illustrations that work closely with the text to support learning and are supplemented with high-quality photos from around the world; examples and parallels drawn from practical everyday situations to engage readers; end-of-chapter review questions, and additional problem sets online, to help readers check their understanding; boxes containing in-depth material, relevant examples, and background information to give context and show the relevance of the theory to the bigger picture; updated e-learning modules to further reinforce key topics and bring concepts to life using summaries, innovative animations, and additional examples and figures.

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