Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-slip Fault Systems - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-slip Fault Systems write by Alison B. Till. This book was released on 2007-01-01. Exhumation Associated with Continental Strike-slip Fault Systems available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Tectonics of Strike-slip Restraining and Releasing Bends
Tectonics of Strike-slip Restraining and Releasing Bends - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tectonics of Strike-slip Restraining and Releasing Bends write by W. D. Cunningham. This book was released on 2007. Tectonics of Strike-slip Restraining and Releasing Bends available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume addresses the tectonic complexity and diversity of strike-slip restraining and releasing bends with 18 contributions divided into four thematic sections: a topical review of fault bends and their global distribution; bends, sedimentary basins and earthquake hazards; restraining bends, transpressional deformation and basement controls on development; releasing bends, transtensional deformation and fluid flow.
The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting write by Christopher H. Scholz. This book was released on 2019-01-03. The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales. The intimate connection between the two is manifested in their scaling laws and populations, which evolve from fracture growth and interactions between fractures. The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws - producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events. The third edition of this classic treatise presents a wealth of new topics and new observations. These include slow earthquake phenomena; friction of phyllosilicates, and at high sliding velocities; fault structures; relative roles of strong and seismogenic versus weak and creeping faults; dynamic triggering of earthquakes; oceanic earthquakes; megathrust earthquakes in subduction zones; deep earthquakes; and new observations of earthquake precursory phenomena.
Alaska Dinosaurs
Alaska Dinosaurs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alaska Dinosaurs write by Anthony R. Fiorillo. This book was released on 2018-01-02. Alaska Dinosaurs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Anthony Fiorillo has been exploring the Arctic since 1998. For him, like many others, the Arctic holds the romance of uncharted territory, extreme conditions, and the inevitable epic challenges that arise. For Fiorillo, however, the Arctic also holds the secrets of the history of life on Earth, and its fossils bring him back field season after field season in pursuit of improving human understanding of ancient history. His studies of the rocks and fossils of the Arctic shed light on a world that once was, and provide insight into what might be.
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins write by Cathy Busby. This book was released on 2011-12-07. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Investigating the complex interplay between tectonics and sedimentation is a key endeavor in modern earth science. Many of the world's leading researchers in this field have been brought together in this volume to provide concise overviews of the current state of the subject. The plate tectonic revolution of the 1960's provided the framework for detailed models on the structure of orogens and basins, summarized in a 1995 textbook edited by Busby and Ingersoll. Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins: Recent Advances focuses on key topics or areas where the greatest strides forward have been made, while also providing on-line access to the comprehensive 1995 book. Breakthroughs in new techniques are described in Section 1, including detrital zircon geochronology, cosmogenic nuclide dating, magnetostratigraphy, 3-D seismic, and basin modelling. Section 2 presents the new models for rift, post-rift, transtensional and strike slip basin settings. Section 3 addresses the latest ideas in convergent margin tectonics, including the sedimentary record of subduction intiation and subduction, flat-slab subduction, and arc-continent collision; it then moves inboard to forearc basins and intra-arc basins, and ends with a series of papers formed under compessional strain regimes, as well as post-orogenic intramontane basins. Section 4 examines the origin of plate interior basins, and the sedimentary record of supercontinent formation. This book is required reading for any advanced student or professional interested in sedimentology, plate tectonics, or petroleum geoscience. Additional resources for this book can be found at: www.wiley.com/go/busby/sedimentarybasins.
