StructureSolver is a Superior Training Tool
- StructureSolver can be used to teach structural principles using real time interactive model building and animation. StructureSolver brings the principles of fault-related deformation and sedimentary growth to life in ways that diagrams and equations cannot.
- After a short period of guided experimentation using StructureSolver, geologists will fully grasp the critical relationships between fault shapes, growth rates and fold geometries.
Inversion Model
This example illustrates how simple it is to create a model with combined extensional and contractional growth. You just need to put a little thought into the sequence in which you add surfaces and move surfaces. Note how you can construct a partial model and then extend it automatically by adding points to the fault. This illustrates the flexibility of the StructureSolver workflow.
Examples like this provide value in structural geology training.
- Geologists can also use restorations of synthetic and real geological structures to improve their appreciation of structural sequencing.
Restoration Basics
- By working through simple "what-if" scenarios geologists quickly appreciate how much valuable information can be obtained from geometric analysis in both extensional and contractional regimes.