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This document contains a 3-page final exam for a Petroleum Engineering structural geology class. The exam has 3 questions worth a total of 42 marks. Question 1 is worth 12 marks and asks students to answer 12 multiple choice definitions and concepts. Question 2 is worth 10 marks and asks students to calculate and draw the deformed position of a rock body given transformation values. Question 3 is worth 20 marks and provides a Mohr circle diagram, asking students to analyze stresses at two points and calculate critical values.

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Q1) Answer Twelve of The Following: (12 Marks)

This document contains a 3-page final exam for a Petroleum Engineering structural geology class. The exam has 3 questions worth a total of 42 marks. Question 1 is worth 12 marks and asks students to answer 12 multiple choice definitions and concepts. Question 2 is worth 10 marks and asks students to calculate and draw the deformed position of a rock body given transformation values. Question 3 is worth 20 marks and provides a Mohr circle diagram, asking students to analyze stresses at two points and calculate critical values.

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Misan University – Engineering College

Petroleum Engineering Department


Subject: Structural Geology Class: 2nd
Exam: Final 2019-2020 (1st Attempt) Date: 15/9/2020
Examiner: Dr. Haider H. Faraj Time: 3 hours

NOTE: *Answer All questions unless otherwise specified, Full Mark is (42)
* The total pages for this questions sheet is 3 pages.
Q1) Answer TWELVE of the following: (12 Marks)

1. Terms used to describe surfaces across which there has been perceptible
displacement are many. However, most geologists would prefer one of the falling
terms: (a) joints, (b) fractures, (c) cracks, or (d) faults. What term best describes a
surface across which there has been perceptible displacement?
2. Force is a term common to physics. Its classical expression is Force = mass *
acceleration. However geologists are more concerned with the intensity of force or
more succinctly the stress. Stress is defined as .
3. Stresses produce strains in Earth materials. What are strains?
4. There are two end-member varieties of faults: dip-slip and strike-slip. The
displacement along a strike-slip fault is to the strike of the fault.
5. The orientation of a plane in space is expressed by its attitude; a term consisting
of two components, strike and dip. Define strike. Define dip.
6. Though many beds are upright others are not. For example, an overturned bed is one
that has been rotated more than degrees.
7. A dip-slip fault consists of the dipping fault surface and hanging and footwall blocks.
The hanging wall block lies the dipping fault surface.
8. In the following illustration what block is the White Pine located on? What block
is the Maple located on? What kind of fault is illustrated?

9. The footwall block lies a dipping fault surface.


10. What do you call a three dimensional surface separating Earth material of differing
aspect?
11. In a dip-slip fault, if the hanging wall block moved up relative to the footwall block,
then the fault is classified as a .
12. Folds are either anticlines or synclines. Many large hydrocarbon reservoirs occur within
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the cores of anticlines while adjacent synclines may contain the source of such material.
Folds are distortions of rock bodies.
13. Please answer the question shown in the following illustration?

14. Please answer the question shown on the following illustration

Q2) Calculate and draw the final position of a deformed rock body (A) as shown on its
original position. take into consideration the following transformation values A = 3.5,
B = 1.88 and W = +45 ? (10 Marks)

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Q3) The Mohr circles representing the states of stress at two points, A and B, and in
the same rock type at different levels in the crust are shown in the figure below with
the Mohr Failure envelope for the rock type. The principal stresses at each point are
vertical and horizontal as shown. The rock at B is at the point of failure. Answer the
following questions. (20 Marks)

1. What is the mean stress at point A?


2. What is the differential stress at point B?
3. Is σ3 at point A tensile or compressive? Why?
4. What is the orientation, relative to the principal axes, of the fractures that form at
point B?
5. If The pore fluid pressure at A is increased until the rock hydraulically fractures,
show on the figure at top right the orientation of these fractures with the sense of
movement that they would undergo under the given stress.
6. Calculate the critical shear stress to induce onset of fractures at point B.
7. Calculate the normal stress at point A then compare it to the shear stress at point B.

Best Of Luck ..

HOD Examiner

Dr. Hanoon H. Mashkor Dr. Haider. H. Dahm

PE 200, Final Exam. 2020

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