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Faulting in Brittle Rocks: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Tectonic Faults
Faulting in Brittle Rocks An Introduction to the Mechanics of Tectonic Faults
Author: Georg Mandl
The book presents an introduction to the mechanical genesis of tectonic faults in the brittle crust of the Earth. In the first chapters mechanical concepts of rock (such as brittleness, stresses in a discontinuum, effective stress, buoyancy, poro-thermo-elasticiy, fracture modes and the corresponding failure and slip conditions) are discussed. T...  more »
ISBN-13: 9783540664369
ISBN-10: 354066436X
Publication Date: 2/3/2000
Pages: 434
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Springer
Book Type: Hardcover
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