Fundamentals of structural geology / David D. Pollard and Raymond C. Fletcher

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Autor principal: Pollard, David D.
Otros Autores: Fletcher, Raymond C.
Formato: Desconocido
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Edición:4th pr.
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  • Chapter 1: Motivations and opportunities
  • 1.1 Esrthquake hazards in southern California
  • 1.2 Radar lineaments on Venus
  • 1.3 Faulting in Noth Sea hydrocarbon reservoir
  • 1.4 Anticraks in souther France
  • 1.5 Mountain building on the Coloradi Plateau
  • 1.6 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 2 Structural mapping techniques and tools
  • 2.1 Geographic coordinates and map projections
  • 2.2 Local coordinates and position vector
  • 2.3 Orientations of structural elements
  • 2.4 Strutural mapping using GPS technology
  • 2.5 Cloncluding remarks
  • Chapter 3 Characterizing structures using differential geometry
  • 3.1 The concept and description of lineations
  • 3.2 The concept and description of cuved surfaces
  • 3.3 Applications of differential geometry to structural geology
  • 3.4 concluding remarks
  • Chapter 4 Physical quantities, dimensions and scaling
  • 4.1 Physical quantities and the continuum
  • 4.2 Physical diemnsions and bidimensional analysis
  • 4.3 Scaled laboratory models
  • 4.4 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 5 Deformation and fow
  • 5.1 Rock deformation:some obsevations and a simple description
  • 5.2 Evolving geometry of structure: kinematic models, velocity models and defrmation
  • 5.3 Relation between deformation and velocity fields
  • Velocity fields: the instantaneous state of motion
  • 5.5 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 6 Force, traction and stress
  • 6.1 Concepts of force and traction
  • 6.2 Concept and analysis of stress
  • 6.3 State of stress in the Earth
  • 6.4 Concluidng remarks
  • Chapter 7 Conservation of mass and momentum
  • 7.1 Particle dynamics
  • 7.2 Rigid-body dynamics and statics
  • 7.3 Conservation of mass and momentum in a deformable continuum
  • 7.4 Feld equations for the elastic solid and viscous fluid
  • 7.5 Concluding remarks
  • Chapter 8 Elastic deformation
  • 8.1 Estimating rock properties from geological field test
  • 8.2 The idealized elastic material
  • 8.3. Quasi-static displacement boundary value problems
  • 8.4. Quasi-static traction boundary value problems
  • 8.5. Elastic properties form laboratory and engineering field tests
  • 8.6. Elastic heterogeneity and anisotropy
  • 8.7. Concluding remarks
  • 9. Brittle behavior
  • 9.1. Brittle deformation in the laboratory and in the field
  • 9.2. stength of laboratory samples
  • 9.3. Brittle failure in a field of heterogemeous stress
  • 9.4. Brittle failur in a field of heterogeneous stress
  • 9.5. Fracture propogation and fault growth
  • 9.6. Concluding remark
  • 10. Viscous flow
  • 10.1. Rock deformation by viscous flow
  • 10.2. Constitutive relations for isoropic viscous fluids
  • 10.3. Plane and antiplane flow
  • 10.4. Viscous flow in layers: mullions and folds
  • 10.5. Flow of anisotropic viscous fluids
  • 10.6. Concluding remarks
  • 11. Rheological behavior
  • 11.1. Departures form linear viscous flow
  • 11.2. Boudinage and the non-linear powe-law fluid
  • 11.3. coupling of viscous flow and macroscopic diffusional transport
  • 11.4. Cntinuum properties of composite materials
  • 11.5. Anistropic fluids and internal instability
  • 11.6. Concluding remarks
  • 12. Model developmente and methodology
  • 12.1 Idealizations of field observations
  • 12.2 Selection of general boundary conditions
  • 12.3 A methodology for the practice of structural geology
  • 12.4 Concluding remarks