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Lavishly Illustrated In Color, This Textbook Takes An Applied Approach To Introduce Undergraduate Students To The Basic Principles Of Structural Geology. The Book Provides Unique Links To Industry Applications In The Upper Crust, Including Petroleum And Groundwater Geology, Which Highlight The Importance Of Structural Geology In Exploration And Exploitation Of Petroleum And Water Resources. Topics Range From Faults And Fractures Forming Near The Surface To Shear Zones And Folds Of The Deep Crust. Students Are Engaged Through Examples And Parallels Drawn From Practical Everyday Situations, Enabling Them To Connect Theory With Practice. Containing Numerous End-of-chapter Problems, E-learning Modules, And With Stunning Field Photos And Illustrations, This Book Provides The Ultimate Learning Experience For All Students Of Structural Geology-- 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 Fol

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Author
Haakon Fossen, Haakon Fossen
Publisher
Cambridge eText
Published
2010
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521516648
Category
reference
Subjects
Reference, Fiction, Science
Rating
4.12 / 5 (37 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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