David Durney (MSc, PhD Lond., DIC) is a Senior Lecturer within the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Macquarie University, Sydney.

David's teaching and research interests include structural geology, rock mechanics and geological mapping. He has recently been investigating digital methods of structural and geological mapping (including structural databases, stereodigitizing, GIS and use of airbourne radiometric data); the use of cleavage, stylolites, veins, striations and pressure-shadows for determining structural history; thrust mechanics; and modelling of microscale mass transfer. The main focus for recent field studies has been the South Coast and Central West of New South Wales, and northeast Spain.

Some current activities in the areas of structural geology and geological mapping are:

1. Book Review:
   Ramsay & Lisle, The techniques of modern structural geology, Volume 3: Applications of continuum mechanics in structural geology, Academic Press, 2000.
   • Review. See a forthcoming issue of Tectonophysics for a detailed review of this significant new work.
   • RLcorrections: a separate list of typographical errors and suggested corrections, which may assist users of the book.
   • StreamF (under construction): an interactive procedure that, for the first time, enables viewers to see progressive evolution of heterogeneous flows of simple stream functions.

2. Mapping projects

   Geological mapping projects suitable for BSc Honours study

3. Publications (to be added)

David teaches in first, second, third and Honours/Postgraduate year units including:

• GEOS115 Earth Dynamics, Materials and the Environment
• GEOS224 Introduction to Field Geology
• GEOS255 Geological Maps and Structures
• GEOS264 Geographic Information systems
• GEOS307 Field Geology and Mapping
• GEOS308 Structural and Metamorphic Geology
• GEOS835 Geomechanics
• GEOS875 Structural Petrology
• SUCOGG Honours unit: Deformation Processes

Name: Dr David W. Durney

Address: Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW, 2109, Australia

Phone: 61 2 9850 8408

Fax: 61-2 9850 6904

email: ddurney@els.mq.edu.au

These pages were created with the assistance of Kelsie Dadd on 13/11/01.

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