Structural Geological Interpretation from Satellite Imagery
Course instructor: Martin Insley
OVERVIEW
This short course is designed to give participants an advanced view of the latest techniques essential for an effective geological interpretation from remotely sensed imagery. Emphasis will be placed on the interpretation of imagery from a wide range of structural settings. Both hardcopy and on-screen digital examples will be used throughout the five days so that participants can consolidate the theoretical parts of the course with practical experience. During the course, emphasis will also be placed on the integration and correlation of surface and sub-surface data utilising the capabilities of ARC View / ARC Gis.
CONTENT
Advanced Interpretation Techniques
- Mono-scopic versus stereo-scopic interpretation: advantages and disadvantages of using optical and radar imagery.
- Classification of geological structures: geomorphological expression of different types of faults and folds.
- Identification of different rock types, recognition of bedding features to map fold closures.
- Interpretation of fault and fracture systems.
Interpretation Case studies
- Compressional terrains: Sulaiman and Kirthar fold and thrust belt, Pakistan; frontal fold and thrust belt, Papua New Guinea; Lenguru fold belt, Irian Jaya; Kalpin Uplift, northern margin of the Tarim Basin, China; Sub-Andean thrust belt of southern Bolivia; Argentina; Morocco.
- Extensional terrains: southern Yemen; eastern margin Gulf of Suez, Egypt.
- Strike-slip terrains: Anatolian Fault System, Turkey; Guatemala.
- Salt/Mud diapirism: Zagros fold belt, Iran; Azerbaijan.
- Areas of complex superposed deformation.