Structural geology

by Fossen, Haakon

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Title Statements

Full title :Structural geology / Haakon Fossen.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2010.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:2010.

The Physical Object

Description:xv, 463 p. : : il. mapas ; : 29 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780521516648, 0521516641
oclc:ocn916467751
Dewey Decimal:551.8

Machine generated contents note: Preface; 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 -- 21. A glimpse of a larger picture -- Appendix A. More about the deformation matrix; Appendix B. Stereographic projection; Glossary; References; Index.