Author: Georg Mandl
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: tectonic, faults, mechanics, introduction, brittle, rocks, faulting
Number of Pages: 434
Published: 2000-02-03
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 354066436X
ISBN-13: 9783540664369

The book presents an introduction to the mechanical genesis of tectonic faults in the brittle crust of the Earth. In the first chapters mechanical concepts of rock (such as brittleness, stresses in a discontinuum, effective stress, buoyancy, poro-thermo-elasticiy, fracture modes and the corresponding failure and slip conditions) are discussed. The book focuses on the critical re-assessment of Coulomb-Mohr’s theory of sliding deformation in rocks. The book concludes with a discourse on similarity and self-similarity of fault structures and a critical examination of the feasibility of scal

Author: G. I. Alsop
Publisher: Geological Society of London
Keywords: society, special, publication, geological, zones, processes, faults, shear, flow
Number of Pages: 379
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $210.00
ISBN-10: 186239153X
ISBN-13: 9781862391536

Faults and their deeper level equivalents, shear zones, are localized regions of intense deformation within the Earth. They are recognized at all scales from micro to plate boundary, and are important examples of the nature of heterogeneous deformation in natural rocks. Faults and shear zones are significant as they profoundly influence the location, architecture and evolution of a broad range of geological phenomena. The topography and bathymetry of the Earth’s surface is marked by mountain belts and sedimentary basins which are controlled by faults and shear zones. In addition faults a