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POLLARD, D. D. & FLETCHER, R. C. 2005. Fundamentals of Structural Geology.

xii + 500 pp. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. Price £45.00, US $80.00 (hard covers). ISBN 0 521 83927 0.

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As with many fields of Earth science, there are two philosophically different ways of understanding the inherently complex processes of structural geology. One way is essentially holistic, involving the field observation of a whole deformed rock body, but often revealing a complexity not easily analysed quantitatively. The other approach is reductionist, isolating the component structures of a deformed body in such a way that they can be idealized and modelled mathematically. It is now nearly forty years since John Ramsay (1967, Folding and Fracturing of Rocks, McGraw Hill) . . . [Full Text of this Article]