Can I read Introducing Tectonics, Rock Structures and Mountain Belts on EtoBox?

Introducing Tectonics, Rock Structures and Mountain Belts by Graham Park is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Introducing Tectonics, Rock Structures and Mountain Belts about?

Introducing Tectonics, Rock Structures and Mountain Belts is written to explain the key concepts of tectonics and rock structures to students and to the interested non-specialist, especially those without a strong mathematical background. The study and understanding of geological structures has traditionally been guided by the rigorous application of mathematics and physics but, in this book, Graham Park has avoided mathematical equations altogether and has reduced the geometry to the minimum necessary. The application of plate tectonic theory has revolutionised structural geology by giving the study of rock structures a context in which they can be explained. Since the large-scale movements of the plates ultimately control smaller-scale structures, the study of tectonics is the key to understanding the latter. The reader is thus introduced to large-scale Earth structure and the theory of plate tectonics before dealing with geological structures such as faults and folds. Studies by structural geologists of the movement history of rock masses relative to each other, as revealed by the study of fault systems and shear zones, has helped to integrate rock structures with plate tectonic

Author

Graham Park

Publisher

Dunedin Academic Press Ltd

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9781780460949

Subjects

Science, Stem