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Teaching and Workshop downloads

This page contains a collection of all of Rod Holcombe's teaching and training workshops presentations for free download. They are pdf versions of the original Powerpoint slides.  

They are in three sets, with much overlap:

  1. The full set of structural geology modules developed for in-house presentation to mineral exploration clients either as a complete course or in individual modules.They are based on the undergraduate course listed below, but incorporate considerably more material and an additional degree of understanding. These workshop modules formed the basis for my textbook: Mapping & Structural Geology for Mineral Exploration...
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  2. A reworked subset of some of the modules, prepared for a short-course format of 4-5 hours. These incorporate the same material but presented with a different slant.
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  3. My complete undergraduate course (three years) at The University of Queensland as of 2004, my last year as a teaching Academic. Although these reflect a complete undergraduate Structural geology course, they are largely superceded by the full set of workshop training modules above.
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Free to download and use

Full set of training modules
All Training Modules
01: Introduction and Basic structures [~7Mb]
02: Basic deformation theory [~8Mb]
03: Introduction_to_stereonets [~5.5Mb]
04: Faults and faulting [~17Mb]
05: Folds_and_folding_basics [~14.5Mb]
06: Foliations_and_lineations [~13Mb]
07: Working_in_folded_terranes [~13.5Mb]
08: Younging_criteria_in_outcrop_and_core [~17Mb]
09: Shear_zones [~25.5Mb]
10: Multiply_folded_terranes [~15Mb]
11: Maps_and_mapping [~11Mb]
12: Cross-sections in folded terranes [~5Mb]
13: Oriented_drill_core [~5Mb]
Note: most of these module downloads are large files. [size shown] Each module is designed for 1 1/2-3 hours when delivered, depending on the level of the audience and the amount of interaction generated.
Short-course workshop modules
Short-course Modules
01: Recognising folds in outcrop and core [~14Mb]
02: Younging criteria in outcrop and core [~14Mb]
03: Maps and structure from poor data [~5;Mb]
04: Working with Faults [~15Mb]
05: An Introduction to multiple deformation [~11Mb]
Note: most of these module downloads are large files. [size shown] Each module is designed for 1½-2 hours when delivered, depending on the level of the audience and the amount of interaction generated.
Undergraduate Structure course material

This section provides links to Years 1 to 3 of the undergraduate teaching material used by Rod Holcombe as at 2004 (the last year of teaching before transitioning to consulting). The modules have been recompiled into modern formats, including interactive Contents pages, and removal of some obsolete links. Some of the material is dated, and superceded by more recent research, but much of it remains pertinent to aspiring Structural Geologists. 

Together they provide a complete course in Structural Geology, but they are only lecture notes, not a textbook. Much of the content was provided orally, and can not be reproduced here. But they might help an aspiring Structural Geologist understand the scope of what they must have at their fingertips.

Note: these are large files.

 

Level 1: Elements of Structural Geology and Tectonics: [~37Mb].

By 2004, Introductory Geology had been reduced to just one 13 week module intended to introduce students to Earth Science and lure them to continue. These four lectures was my contribution. Gone was an entire two semesters worth of basic Earth Science, including all of the Physical Geology material incorporating basic techniques of map and section drawing. Made life difficult for students entering my 2nd level course, where I expected them to make up this shortfall in their own time. 

Level 2: Introductory Structural Geology: [~168Mb].

My intention with this course was to provide a solid foundation for all practicing geologists  to have the tools and understanding to deal with most field situations except complex multiply deformed terrane. This was to be in the basic toolbox of a professional geologist. 

Level 3: Structural Analysis of Metamorphic Rocks: [~209Mb]. .

This course was intended to give all students at least a taste of what a specialist Structural Geologist could do, and give them the knowledge to know when to call in a specialist. Hopefully, it would enthuse some of them to procede into a Structural graduate program and become that specialist.