{"id":1245,"date":"2017-09-06T14:49:13","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/geology\/?page_id=1245"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:22:13","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T14:22:13","slug":"structural-geology-and-gis","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/facilities\/structural-geology-and-gis\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Tectonics and Paleoseismology"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-bates-slideshow2-slideshow swiper-effect-slide is-style-boxed-in\">\n\t\t<div class=\"slideshow-toolbar\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"#\" class=\"js-open-fullscreen fullscreen-button\" title=\"View full screen\"><\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div id=\"slideshow5869\" class=\"swiper swiper-main has-captions has-autoheight has-pagination-progressbar\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1259\" data-fullsrc=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/2-1.jpg\" data-regsrc=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/2-1-900x675.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/2-1-900x675.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n\t\t<div class=\"image_caption\"><p>Thrust fault analog model.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"swiper-lazy-preloader\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1258\" data-fullsrc=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/Wheatcroft_GileadQuad_MAP-3.jpg\" data-regsrc=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/Wheatcroft_GileadQuad_MAP-3.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/Wheatcroft_GileadQuad_MAP-3.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n\t\t<div class=\"image_caption\"><p>GIS-based geologic map.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"swiper-lazy-preloader\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1257\" data-fullsrc=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/4.jpg\" data-regsrc=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/4-675x900.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/4-675x900.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n\t\t<div class=\"image_caption\"><p>Collecting field data.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"swiper-lazy-preloader\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div>\t<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1252\" data-fullsrc=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/Ians-rock-to-thin-section-image.jpg\" data-regsrc=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/Ians-rock-to-thin-section-image-900x431.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/files\/2017\/09\/Ians-rock-to-thin-section-image-900x431.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>\n\t\t<div class=\"image_caption\"><p>Hand specimens to thin sections.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"swiper-lazy-preloader\"><\/div>\n\t<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>In the Active Tectonics labs we have a number of sophisticated tools to help in the collection and processing of field-based bedrock data sets to better understand the geologic origins of mountain belts, and ancient tectonic faults . We also use fault shear box analog models to investigate deformation processes. Students have access to: GPS-enabled data loggers used to collect field data, rock saws for thin section preparation, mineral separation facilities for zircon geochronology, and GIS work stations used to create geologic maps and landscape renditions using LiDAR data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Active Tectonics labs we have a number of sophisticated tools&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":479,"featured_media":0,"parent":83,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_prepend":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append":false,"_batesModPostContentOverride_append_before_footer":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-1245","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3426,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1245\/revisions\/3426"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/earth-climate-sciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}