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An Analog And Mathematical Modeling Resource Catalog For Undergraduate Structural Geology Courses, Phillip Resor, John Stimac, Michelle Cooke, Juliet Crider, Dazhi Jiang, Basil Tikoff, Jamie Toro

Phillip G Resor

The Modeling Structural Processes Working Group of the recent NAGT Workshop: "Teaching Structural Geology in the 21st Century" (TSG21) presents a catalog of models used in the teaching of structural geology to undergraduate students. Structural geology models are simplified constructs of complex earth system processes that have long been known to engage students and enhance their intuition of the deformation of earth materials. We recognize four classes of models: conceptual models, data representation models (including maps, stereonets, three-dimensional renderings, and statistical descriptions), analog models (including experiments with rock and non-rock materials), and mathematical models (including analytical expressions and deterministic or …