Structural geology
- 2nd ed.
- United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- xv, 510p.;23cms.
This market-leading textbook has been fully updated in response to extensive user feedback. It includes a new chapter on joints and veins, additional examples from around the world, stunning new field photos, and extended online resources with new animations and exercises. The book's practical emphasis, hugely popular in the first edition, features applications in the upper crust, including petroleum and groundwater geology, highlighting the importance of structural geology in exploration and exploitation of petroleum and water resources. Carefully designed full-colour illustrations work closely with the text to support student learning, and are supplemented with high-quality photos from around the world. Examples and parallels drawn from practical everyday situations engage students, and end-of chapter review questions help them to check their understanding. Updated e-learning modules are available online (www.cambridge.org/fossen2e) and further reinforce key topics using summaries, innovative animations to bring concepts to life, and additional examples and figures.
The second edition of this hugely popular textbook, updated in response to instructor and student feedback, includes an entirely new chapter on joints and veins, as well as updates and new examples throughout the whole book Supported by carefully designed full-colour illustrations, the book features numerous new photos, including an increased number of images from the USA and Brazil Updated e-learning modules, available for most chapters, reinforce key concepts using summaries, innovative animations to bring concepts to life, and additional figures Additional web resources include extra problems and solutions, PowerPoint slides of illustrations, and links to other online structural geology resources (including free software)
Contents:
Preface Acknowledgements 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. Joints and veins 9. Faults 10. Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime 11. Deformation at the microscale 12. Folds and folding 13. Foliation and cleavage 14. Lineations 15. Boudinage 16. Shear zones and mylonites 17. Contractional regimes 18. Extensional regimes 19. Strike-slip, transpression and transtension 20. Salt tectonics 21. Balancing and restoration 22. A glimpse of a larger picture Appendix A. More about the deformation matrix Appendix B. Spherical projections Glossary References Cover and chapter image captions Index.