Geological Knowledge Comments techniques and and skills understanding c. Faulting is caused Interpret features of Candidates should be by tectonic stress rock deformation by able to measure the [compressional, faulting in field amount of fault tensional, shear]. exposures, diagrams, displacement using an photographs, simplified appropriate scale from geological maps and a map or cross section. cross sections: normal fault reverse/thrust fault strike-slip fault fault displacement. d. Unconformities are Identify gaps in the rock unconformities in the record. Angular field, in diagrams, unconformities are photographs, formed by a geological maps and sequence of events cross-sections. Use including deformation, unconformities in uplift, erosion and interpreting the later deposition. geological history of exposures.
Knowledge and understanding Geological techniques and skills Comments c. Faulting is caused by tectonic stress [compressional, tensional, shear]. Interpret features of rock deformation by faulting in field exposures, diagrams, photographs, simplified geological maps and cross sections: normal fault reverse/thrust fault strike-slip fault fault displacement. Candidates should be able to measure the amount of fault displacement using an appropriate scale from a map or cross section. d. Unconformities are gaps in the rock record. Angular unconformities are formed by a sequence of events including deformation, uplift, erosion and later deposition. Identify unconformities in the field, in diagrams, photographs, geological maps and cross-sections. Use unconformities in interpreting the geological history of exposures.
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