Fundamentals of Structural Geology

David D. Pollard, Raymond C. Fletcher

500 pages, parution le 08/12/2005

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Fundamentals of Structural Geology provides a new framework for the investigation of geological structures by integrating field mapping and mechanical analysis. Assuming a basic knowledge of physical geology, introductory calculus and physics, 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. By starting from the fundamental conservation laws of mass and momentum, the constitutive laws of material behavior, and the kinematic relationships for strain and rate of deformation, the authors demonstrate the relevance of solid and fluid mechanics to structural geology. This book offers a modern quantitative approach to structural geology for advanced students and researchers in structural geology and tectonics. It is supported by a website hosting images from the book, additional colour images, student exercises and MATLAB scripts. Solutions to the exercises are available to instructors.

The book integrates field mapping using modern technology with the analysis of structures based on a complete mechanics

MATLAB is used to visualize physical fields and analytical results and MATLAB scripts can be downloaded from the website to recreate textbook graphics and enable students to explore their choice of parameters and boundary conditions

The supplementary website hosts color images of outcrop photographs used in the text, supplementary color images, and images of textbook figures for classroom presentations

The textbook website also includes student exercises designed to instill the fundamental relationships, and to encourage the visualization of the evolution of geological structures; solutions are available to instructors

Sommaire

Preface
Acknowledgments
Motivations and opportunities
Structural mapping techniques and tools
Characterizing structures using differential geometry
Physical quantities, fields, dimensions and scaling
Deformation and flow
Force, traction and stress
Conservation of mass and momentum
Elastic deformation
Brittle behavior
Viscous flow
Rheological behavior
Model development and methodology
References
Index

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Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	David D. Pollard, Raymond C. Fletcher
Parution	08/12/2005
Nb. de pages	500
Format	19 x 25,5
Couverture	Relié
Poids	1256g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521839273
ISBN13	978-0-521-83927-3