Title Statements
- Full title :Understanding faults : detecting, dating, and modeling / edited by David Tanner, Christian Brandes.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2020
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Elsevier
- Place of Publication:Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020
Notes
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0128159863, 9780128159866, 0128159855, 9780128159859
- oclc:on1124761943
- LC Classification:QE606
- Dewey Decimal:551.8/72
Table of Contents
Front Cover; Understanding Faults; Understanding Faults; Copyright; Contents; List of contributors; Preface; 1 -- Introduction; Definition of a fault surface, fault kinematics and displacement; References; 2 -- Fault mechanics and earthquakes; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Fractures; 2.3 From intact rocks to opening-mode fractures to faults; 2.3.1 Griffith cracks; 2.3.2 The Coulomb failure criterion and the Mohr circle; 2.3.3 Hydrofractures; 2.3.4 Stress state and dynamic fault classification of Anderson; 2.3.5 Wallace-Bott hypothesis; 2.4 Fault zone processes and structure; 2.4.1 The fault zone
2.4.2 Principal slip surface2.4.3 Pseudotachylites; 2.4.4 Strain hardening/strain softening of the fault core; 2.4.5 Fault surface geometry and roughness; 2.4.6 The process zone; 2.4.7 Deformation bands; 2.4.8 Fault groups and their characterization; 2.4.8.1 Fault arrangement and fractal geometry; 2.4.9 Fault evolution with depth; 2.4.10 Fault-related folding; 2.5 Fault movement and seismicity; 2.5.1 Fault rupture; 2.5.1.1 The seismic cycle; 2.5.1.2 Barriers and asperities; 2.5.2 Fault creep; 2.5.3 Slow earthquakes
2.5.4 The Cosserat theory as a concept to describe fault and deformation band beh…
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