Includes bibliographical references (pages 495-500) and index.

This market-leading textbook has been fully updated in response to extensive user feedback. It includes a 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, highlighting the importance of structural geology in exploration and exploitation of petroleum and water resources. Carefully designed full-colour illustrations work closely with the text to support student learning, and are supplemented with high-quality photos from around the world. Examples and parallels drawn from practical everyday situations engage students, and end-of chapter review questions help them to check their understanding. Updated e-learning modules are available online (www.cambridge.org/fossen2e) and further reinforce key topics using summaries, innovative animations to bring concepts to life, and additional examples and figures. The second edition of this hugely popular textbook, updated in response to instructor and student feedback, includes an entirely new chapter on joints and veins, as well as updates and new examples throughout the whole book. Supported by carefully designed full-colour illustrations, the book features numerous new photos, including an increased number of images from the USA and Brazil. Updated e-learning modules, available for most chapters, reinforce key concepts using summaries, innovative animations to bring concepts to life, and additional figures. Additional web resources include extra problems and solutions, PowerPoint slides of illustrations, and links to other online structural geology resources (including free software).