Authors:F. K. Lehner, J. L. Urai,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: faulting, tectonic, aspects
Number of Pages: 226
Published: 2000-01-15
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 3540657088
ISBN-13: 9783540657088
This book provides an overview of modern approaches to the dynamics of tectonic faulting. The contributions were selected from papers which had been presented at a conference organized on the occasion of Georg Mandl’s 70th birthday. The understanding of structural geology and the mechanics of tectonic faulting which was always in the center of his interest was substantially advanced by Mandl’s work. Topics covered are: Particle flow modelling, analog modelling techniques, large-scale tectonic models, onset of faulting above evaporites, dynamic triggering of earthquakes, growth of i
Author: B.M. Wilso
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: approach, tectonic, global, petrogenesis, igneous
Number of Pages: 466
Published: 1989-02-28
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0412533103
ISBN-13: 9780412533105
As a major text in igneous petrology, this innovative book offers a much-needed, radically different approach to the study of igneous rocks. Bridging a long-recognized gap in the literature by providing petrogenic models for magmatismin terms of global tectonic processes, it encompasses geophysics and geochemistry in a comprehensive treatment of the subject.Most textbooks in igneous petrology have intended to avoid discussion of potentially controversial petrogenetic models. However, this is precisely the sort of information senior students of igneous petrology require. Dr Wilson has drawn on
Author: William F. Ruddiman
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: change, climate, uplift, tectonic
Number of Pages: 558
Published: 1997-10-31
List price: $149.00
ISBN-10: 0306456427
ISBN-13: 9780306456428
A significant advance in climatological scholarship, Tectonic Uplift and Climate Change is a multidisciplinary effort to summarize the current status of a new theory steadily gaining acceptance in geoscience circles: that long-term cooling and glaciation are controlled by plateau and mountain uplift. Researchers in many diverse fields, from geology to paleobotany, present data that substantiate this hypothesis. The volume covers most of the key, dramatic transformations of the Earth’s surface.
Authors:Doug Burbank, Robert Anderson,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: geomorphology, tectonic
Number of Pages: 274
Published: 2000-12-27
List price: $89.95
ISBN-10: 0632043865
ISBN-13: 9780632043866
Introduces and reviews the science of geomorphology, explaining what it is, how it works, and the phenomena that surround the entire field. Brings to light the recent advances that have caused a renewed interest in the field, which includes data from a variety of disciplines, including geodesy, seismology, and Quaternary climate change. Softcover. DLC: Geomorphology.
Author: William B. Bull
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: approach, paleoseismology, new, mountains, geomorphology, tectonic
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-11-27
List price: $94.95
ISBN-10: 1405154799
ISBN-13: 9781405154796
With a balance of theory and practical applications, Tectonic Geomorphology of Mountains is essential reading for research geologists and upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in the earth sciences.This book describes how tectonic events influence geomorphic processes and explores how landscapes respond to tectonic deformation in the ways in which they are weathered, washed, and abraded Uses new approaches to enhance theoretical models of landscape evolution and to solve practical problems such as the assessment of earthquake hazards Includes previously unpublished research and theor
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: A.M.C. Sengör
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: science, series, closed, nato, region, evolution, tethyan, tectonic
Number of Pages: 740
Published: 1989-02-28
List price: $499.00
ISBN-10: 079230067X
ISBN-13: 9780792300670
