David D. Pollard (California Stanford University), Raymond C. Fletcher (Pennsylvania State University)

Fundamentals of Structural Geology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Fundamentals of Structural Geology presents a modern quantitative approach to structural geology and tectonics for advanced students and researchers. It emphasizes the observational data, modern mapping technology, principles of continuum mechanics, and the mathematical and computational skills, necessary to quantitatively map, describe, model, and explain deformation in Earth's lithosphere.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 514
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 260mm x 183mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 1116g
• ISBN-13: 9780521839273
• ISBN-10: 0521839270
• Artikelnr.: 22279984

Autorenporträt

David Pollard is the Morris Professor of Earth Sciences at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Motivations and opportunities
2. Structural mapping techniques and tools
3. Characterizing structures using differential geometry
4. Physical quantities, fields, dimensions and scaling
5. Deformation and flow
6. Force, traction and stress
7. Conservation of mass and momentum
8. Elastic deformation
9. Brittle behavior
10. Viscous flow
11. Rheological behavior
12. Model development and methodology
Index.