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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Motivations and opportunities | |
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| Earthquake hazards in southern California | |
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| Radar lineaments on Venus | |
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| Faulting in a North Sea hydrocarbon reservoir | |
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| Anticracks in southern France | |
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| Mountain building on the Colorado Plateau | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Structural mapping techniques and tools | |
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| Geographic coordinates and map projections | |
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| Local coordinates and position vectors | |
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| Orientations of structural elements | |
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| Structural mapping using GPS technology | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Characterizing structures using differential geometry | |
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| The concept and description of lineations | |
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| The concept and description of curved surfaces | |
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| Applications of differential geometry to structural geology | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Physical quantities, fields, dimensions, and scaling | |
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| Physical quantities and the continuum | |
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| Physical dimensions and dimensional analysis | |
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| Dimensionless groups and the scaling of structural processes | |
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| Scaled laboratory models | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Deformation and flow | |
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| Rock deformation: some observations and a simple description | |
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| Evolving geometry of a structure: kinematic models, velocity models, and deformation | |
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| Relation between deformation and velocity fields | |
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| Velocity fields: the instantaneous state of motion | |
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| General results | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Force, traction, and stress | |
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| Concepts of force and traction | |
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| Concept and analysis of stress | |
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| State of stress in the Earth | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Conservation of mass and momentum | |
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| Particle dynamics | |
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| Rigid-body dynamics and statics | |
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| Conservation of mass and momentum in a deformable continuum | |
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| Field equations for the elastic solid and viscous fluid | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Elastic deformation | |
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| Estimating rock properties from geological field tests | |
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| The idealized elastic material | |
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| Quasi-static displacement boundary value problems | |
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| Quasi-static traction boundary value problems | |
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| Elastic properties from laboratory and engineering field tests | |
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| Elastic heterogeneity and anisotropy | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Brittle behavior | |
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| Brittle deformation in the laboratory and in the field | |
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| Strength of laboratory samples | |
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| Brittle failure in a field of homogeneous stress | |
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| Brittle failure in a field of heterogeneous stress | |
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| Fracture propagation and fault growth | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Viscous flow | |
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| Rock deformation by viscous flow | |
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| Constitutive relations for isotropic viscous fluids | |
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| Plane and antiplane flow | |
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| Viscous flow in layers: mullions and folds | |
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| Flow of anisotropic viscous fluids | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Rheological behavior | |
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| Departures from linear viscous flow | |
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| Boudinage and the non-linear power-law fluid | |
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| Coupling of viscous flow and macroscopic diffusional transport | |
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| Continuum properties of composite materials | |
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| Anisotropic fluids and internal instability | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| Model development and methodology | |
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| Idealization of field observations | |
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| Selection of general boundary conditions | |
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| A methodology for the practice of structural geology | |
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| Concluding remarks | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |