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The Tectonic Studies Group has existed since the early 1970s as a forum for discussion of research in structural geology and tectonics. It has the status of a specialist group afilliated to the Geological Society of London, but has no formal membership. All are welcome to attend meetings and to propose and organize events such as conferences, workshops and field excursions.

The lack of formality of TSG meetings provides a suitable environment for the testing of new ideas and the discussion of research in progress. The group particularly encourages young researchers to present their results.

Our meetings attract participants from both universities and industry. The group has benefitted from generous sponsorship from industry in recent years. The Tectonic Studies Group gratefully acknowledges industry sponsorship for its recent meetings and fieldtrips. In recent years, significant contributions have been received from various companies including BP, ExxonMobil, Shell, Statoil, Amerada Hess, and Encana.
 

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 TSG will be running two fieldtrips during early Summer 2013.

 

The first trip will be to the NW Highlands of Scotland 2nd-7th June, running in parallel with a GSA trip lead by Rob Butler (University of Aberdeen) and Rick Law (Virginia Tech). The trip will cover a range of deformation styles in the deep crust through various forms of mylonites and cataclasites up to faulting and damage zones in analogue hydrocarbon reservoirs.  

For further information you can contact Hannah Watkins at The University of Aberdeen


The second trip will be to Shetland, from 24th – 28th June. During this trip we will see structural features formed during brittle and ductile deformations in a number of lithologies. Key localities include; the Walls Boundary Fault (a crustal scale strike slip fault on par with the San Andreas fault scale), a cross section through the Unst- Fetlar ophiolite and the internationally famous Funzie conglomerate (the basis for classic strain analysis developed by Derek Flinn (1956).  

For further information you can contact Natalie Farrell at The University of Aberdeen