| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Perth, W.A. Available via World Wide Web. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Contents |
Cover13; -- Contents13; -- How to use this book -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of symbols -- Structural geology and structural analysis -- 1.1 Approaching structural geology -- 1.2 Structural geology and tectonics -- 1.3 Structural data sets -- 1.4 Field data -- 1.5 Remote sensing and geodesy -- 1.6 DEM, GIS and Google Earth -- 1.7 Seismic data -- 1.8 Experimental data -- 1.9 Numerical modeling -- 1.10 Other data sources -- 1.11 Organizing the data -- 1.12 Structural analysis -- 1.13 Concluding remarks -- Deformation -- 2.1 What is deformation? -- 2.2 Components of deformation -- 2.3 System of reference -- 2.4 Deformation: detached from history -- 2.5 Homogeneous and heterogeneous deformation -- 2.6 Mathematical description of deformation -- 2.7 One-dimensional strain -- 2.8 Strain in two dimensions -- 2.9 Three-dimensional strain -- 2.10 The strain ellipsoid -- 2.11 More about the strain ellipsoid -- 2.12 Volume change -- 2.13 Uniaxial strain (compaction) -- 2.14 Pure shear and coaxial deformations -- 2.15 Simple shear -- 2.16 Subsimple shear -- 2.17 Progressive deformation and flow parameters -- 2.18 Velocity field -- 2.19 Flow apophyses -- 2.20 Vorticity and Wk -- 2.21 Steady-state deformation -- 2.22 Incremental deformation -- 2.23 Strain compatibility and boundary conditions -- 2.24 Deformation history from deformed rocks -- 2.25 Coaxiality and progressive simple shear -- 2.26 Progressive pure shear -- 2.27 Progressive subsimple shear -- 2.28 Simple and pure shear and their scale dependence -- 2.29 General three-dimensional deformation -- 2.30 Stress versus strain -- Summary -- Strain in rocks -- 3.1 Why perform strain analysis? -- 3.2 Strain in one dimension -- 3.3 Strain in two dimensions -- 3.4 Strain in three dimensions -- Summary -- Stress -- 4.1 Definitions, magnitudes and units -- 4.2 Stress on a surface -- 4.3 Stress at a point -- 4.4 Stress components -- 4.5 The stress tensor (matrix) -- 4.6 Deviatoric stress and mean stress -- 4.7 Mohr circle and diagram -- Summary -- Stress in the lithosphere -- 5.1 Importance of stress measurements -- 5.2 Stress measurements -- 5.3 Reference states of stress -- 5.4 The thermal effect on horizontal stress -- 5.5 Residual stress -- 5.6 Tectonic stress -- 5.7 Global stress patterns -- 5.8 Differential stress, deviatoric stress and some implications -- Summary -- Rheology -- 6.1 Rheology and continuum mechanics -- 6.2 Idealized conditions -- 6.3 Elastic materials -- 6.4 Plasticity and flow: permanent deformation -- 6.5 Combined models -- 6.6 Experiments -- 6.7 The role of temperature, water etc. -- 6.8 Definition of plastic, ductile and brittle deformation -- 6.9 Rheology of the lithosphere -- Summary -- Fracture and brittle deformation -- 7.1 Brittle deformation mechanisms -- 7.2 Types of fractures -- 7.3 Failure and fracture criteria -- 7.4 Microdefects and failure -- 7.5 Fracture termination and interaction -- 7.6 Reactivation and frictional sliding -- 7.7 Fluid pressure, effective stress and poroelasticity -- 7.8 Deformation bands and fractures in porous rocks -- Summary -- Faults -- 8.1 Fault terminology -- 8.2 Fault anatomy -- 8.3 Displacement distribution -- T. |
| Subject |
Geology, Structural.
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| Added Author |
Ebooks Corporation
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| Related To |
Print version: Fossen, Haakon, 1961- Structural geology. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521516648 (DLC) 2010011781 |
| ISBN |
9780511776472 (electronic bk.) |
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0511776470 (electronic bk.) |
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9780521516648 (hardback) |
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0521516641 (hardback) |
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9786612771217 |
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6612771216 |
| OCLC # |
EBC542845 |
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