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Faulting in Brittle Rocks - An Introduction to the Mechanics of Tectonic Faults (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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Faulting in Brittle Rocks - An Introduction to the Mechanics of Tectonic Faults (Hardcover, 2000 ed.)
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This book provides an introduction into the mechanics of faulting
in the brittle crust of the Earth. It developed from my annual
two-semester course on tectono mechanics for graduate students of
engineering geology and of rock engineering at the Technical
University of Graz (Austria). In this course, it is not my task to
present a broad exposition and geometrical description of
geological structures, but rather to focus on the mechanical
processes that produce the structures. Although this was also the
aim of my former book "Mechanics of Tectonic Faulting - Models and
Basic Concepts" (1988, Elsevier), henceforth referred to as MTF,
the present book is different in organisation and content, in order
to meet the requirements of the courses and to include more recent
developments. Instead of following the traditional subdivision into
extensional, compressional and strike-slip faulting, the
presentation focuses on mechanical aspects of tectonic faulting
that are common to various, or even all types of tectonic faults in
the brittle regime. In this way, geometrically disparate or
dissimilar fault structures may be revealed as closely related by
the underlying mechanical process, and complex structures may be
better understood. It may be useful to indicate how the chapters in
the book are organised. The first three chapters are an
introduction to rock mechanics, tailored to applications in
geology. It also presents the extremely useful graphical method of
Mohr's stress circle, which is freely used throughout the book to
keep the mathematics to an absolute minimum.
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