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Tectonic Faults : Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Dahlem Workshop ReportsPublisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (461 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262274845
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tectonic FaultsDDC classification:
  • 551.8/72
LOC classification:
  • QE606.D34 2007
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Dahlem Konferenzen ® -- List of Participants -- 1 Tectonic Faults: Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth -- 2 Fault Zones from Top to Bottom: A Geophysical Perspective -- 3 Strain Localization within Fault Arrays over Timescales of 10 Years: Observations, Explanations, and Debates -- 4 Group Report: Nucleation and Growth of Fault Systems -- 5 Seismic Fault Rheology and Earthquake Dynamics -- 6 Continental Fault Structure and Rheology from the Frictional-to-Viscous Transition Downward -- 7 Group Report: Rheology of Fault Rocks and Their Surroundings -- 8 Topography, Denudation, and Deformation: The Role of Surface Processes in Fault Evolution -- 9 Constraining the Denudational Response to Faulting -- 10 Group Report: Surface Environmental Effects on and of Faulting -- 11 Fluid Processes in Deep Crustal Fault Zones -- 12 Deformation in the Presence of Fluids and Mineral Reactions: Effect of Fracturing and Fluid-Rock Interaction on Seismic Cycles -- 13 Effects of Melting on Faulting and Continental Deformation -- 14 Group Report: Fluids, Geochemical Cycles, and Mass Transport in Fault Zones -- Author Index -- Subject Index.
Summary: Scientists examine tectonic faulting on all scales--from seismic fault slip to the formation of mountain ranges--and discuss its connection to a wide range of global phenomena, including long-term climate change and evolution.
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Intro -- Contents -- Dahlem Konferenzen ® -- List of Participants -- 1 Tectonic Faults: Agents of Change on a Dynamic Earth -- 2 Fault Zones from Top to Bottom: A Geophysical Perspective -- 3 Strain Localization within Fault Arrays over Timescales of 10 Years: Observations, Explanations, and Debates -- 4 Group Report: Nucleation and Growth of Fault Systems -- 5 Seismic Fault Rheology and Earthquake Dynamics -- 6 Continental Fault Structure and Rheology from the Frictional-to-Viscous Transition Downward -- 7 Group Report: Rheology of Fault Rocks and Their Surroundings -- 8 Topography, Denudation, and Deformation: The Role of Surface Processes in Fault Evolution -- 9 Constraining the Denudational Response to Faulting -- 10 Group Report: Surface Environmental Effects on and of Faulting -- 11 Fluid Processes in Deep Crustal Fault Zones -- 12 Deformation in the Presence of Fluids and Mineral Reactions: Effect of Fracturing and Fluid-Rock Interaction on Seismic Cycles -- 13 Effects of Melting on Faulting and Continental Deformation -- 14 Group Report: Fluids, Geochemical Cycles, and Mass Transport in Fault Zones -- Author Index -- Subject Index.

Scientists examine tectonic faulting on all scales--from seismic fault slip to the formation of mountain ranges--and discuss its connection to a wide range of global phenomena, including long-term climate change and evolution.

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