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Publication date 19 topics geology, earthsciences, flow, plate tectonics, fracture, earth science publisher henry holt. These methods can be found in any standard textbooks on structural geology e. He earned his phd from harvard university and was professor of geology at that university. Geologic maps and crosssections effectively summarize the structural geology of a region, but. The black hills of south dakota are a structural dome. Physiography, tectonics, structural geology, geophysics, plate boundaries, continental margins, mantle and core studies, orogeny, paleomagmatism. Marland pratt billings was an american geologist and professor.
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