Structural geology /
"Lavishly illustrated in color, this textbook takes an applied approach to introduce undergraduate students to the basic principles of structural geology. The book provides unique links to industry applications in the upper crust, including petroleum and groundwater geology, which highlight the...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| Edición: | 1st. published, 4th printing. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Tapa |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of symbols
- 1. Structural geology and structural analysis
- 2. Deformation
- 3. Strain in rocks
- 4. Stress
- 5. Stress in the lithosphere
- 6. Rheology
- 7. Fracture and brittle deformation
- 8. Faults
- 9. Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
- 10. Deformation at the microscale
- 11. Folds and folding
- 12. Foliation and cleavage
- 13. Lineations
- 14. Boudinage
- 15. Shear zones and mylonites
- 16. Contractional regimes
- 17. Extensional regimes
- 18. Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
- 19. Salt tectonics
- 20. Balancing and restoration
- Appendix A. More about the deformation matrix
- Appendix B. Stereographic projection
