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Gerhard Oertel, Professor Emeritus of Geology |
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| Mailing Address: | 330 Kensington Drive
Madison, WI 53704 |
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(608) 442-9405 |
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oertelATess.ucla.edu |
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Courses Taught |
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| | ESS 245A
ESS 245B |
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Current Research Interest |
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| | Structural geology; kinematics of faulting and folding; mechanics of slaty cleavage; mesoscopic and x-ray fabrics; structures of plutonic rocks; model experiments. |
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Education |
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| | Dr. rer. nat., 1945, University of Bonn |
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Selected Publications |
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| | Oertel, G., and C.D. Curtis, Clay-ironstone concretion preserving
fabrics due to progressive compaction, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 83,
2597-2606, 1972. | | | Oertel, G., Unfolding of an antiform
by the reversal of observed strains, Geol. Soc. Amer. Bull., 85,
445-450, 1974. | | | Oertel, G., Strain estimation from
scattered observations in an inhomogeneously deformed domain of rocks, Tectonophysics,
77, 133-150, 1981. | | | Oertel, G., Phyllosilicate
textures in slates, in Preferred Orientation in Deformed Metals and Rocks,
An Introduction to Modern Texture Analysis, H.-R. Wenk, (Ed.), Academic Press,
New York, 431-440, 1985. | | | Oertel, G. and A.P.S. Reymer,
Perturbations of strain and rotation in a nodular slate, J. Struct. Geol.,
14, 257-269, 1992. | | | Yin, A., and G.
Oertel, Kinematics and strain distribution of a thrust-related fold system in
the Lewis thrust plat, northwestern Montana (U.S.A.): J. Struct. Geol.,
15, 707-719, 1993. | | | Oertel, G., Stress
and Deformation: A Handbook on Tensors in Geology. Oxford University Press, New
York, xii + 292 p., 1996. |
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