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Mechanics Problems in Geodynamics Part I

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Editors:
  1. Ren Wang

    1. Department of Mechanics, Peking University, Beijing, China

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  2. Keiiti Aki

    1. Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-v
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  2. Introduction

    • Ren Wang, Keiiti Aki
    Pages 399-401

  3. Mechanical Problems in Geodynamics and Work Done in China

    • Ren Wang
    Pages 403-423

  4. A Review on the Lithospheric Structures in the Tibetan Plateau and Constraints for Dynamics

    • Rongsheng Zeng, Zhifeng Ding, Qingju Wu
    Pages 425-443

  5. Free Oscillations of a Laterally Heterogeneous and Anelastic Earth

    • Seiji Tsuboi
    Pages 445-457

  6. The Earth’s Palaeorotation, Postglacial Rebound and Lower Mantle Viscosity from Analysis of Ancient Chinese Eclipse Records

    • Kevin D. Pang, Kevin Yau, Hung-Hsiang Chou
    Pages 459-485

  7. A Preliminary Study of the Effects of Some Flow Parameters in the Generation of Poloidal and Toroidal Energies Within a 3-D Spherical Thermal-convective System with Variable Viscosity

    • Albert T. Hsui, Woo-Sun Yang, John R. Baumgardner
    Pages 487-503

  8. On the Rifting Dynamics of Plate Divergence and Magma Accumulation at Oceanic Ridge Axes

    • Wolf R. Jacoby, Bettie Higgs
    Pages 505-521

  9. 3-D Spherical Shell Modeling of Mantle Flow and Its Implication for Global Tectogenesis

    • Xunying Sun, Lijie Han
    Pages 523-536

  10. Coupling of Tectonic Loading and Earthquake Fault Slips at Subduction Zones

    • Kelin Wang
    Pages 537-559

  11. Oblique Subduction of a Newtonian Fluid Slab

    • Zheng-Kang Shen
    Pages 561-577

  12. On the Dynamics of Extensional Basin

    • Rong-sheng Zeng, Chun-yong Wang, Dong-ning Zhang
    Pages 579-603

  13. Rheological Information from Geological Structures

    • Peter J. Hudleston, Labao Lan
    Pages 605-620

  14. A Method of Estimating the Stress Exponent in the Flow Law for Rocks Using Fold Shape

    • Labao Lan, Peter J. Hudleston
    Pages 621-635

  15. The Effect of Fault-bend Folding on Seismic Velocity in the Marginal Ridge of Accretionary Prisms

    • Yongen Cai, Chi-Yuen Wang, Win-Tsuang Hwang, Guy R. Cochrane
    Pages 637-646

  16. Interrelation between Fault Zone Structures and Earthquake Processes

    • Keiiti Aki
    Pages 647-676

  17. Analysis of Induced Seismicity for Stress Field Determination and Pore Pressure Mapping

    • F. H. Cornet, Yin Jianmin
    Pages 677-700

  18. A New Approach to Earthquake Prediction: The Load/Unload Response Ratio (LURR) Theory

    • Xiang-Chu Yin, Xue-zhong Chen, Zhi-Ping Song, Can Yin
    Pages 701-715

  19. An Earthquake Instability Model Based on Faults Containing High Fluid-pressure Compartments

    • David A. Lockner, James D. Byerlee
    Pages 717-745

  20. Slip-weakening Constitutive Relation and the Structure in the Vicinity of a Shear Crack Tip

    • Changrong He
    Pages 747-757
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About this book

Geodynamics concerns with the dynamics of the global motion of the earth, of the motion in the earth's interior and its interaction with surface features, together with the mechanical processes in the deformation and rupture of geological structures. Its final object is to determine the driving mechanism of these motions which is highly interdisciplinary. In preparing the basic geological, geophysical data required for a comprehensive mechanical analysis, there are also many mechanical problems involved, which means the problem is coupled in a complicated manner with geophysics, rock mechanics, seismology, structural geology etc. This topical issue is Part I of the Proceedings of an IUTAM / IASPEI Symposium on Mechanics Problems in Geodynamics held in Beijing, September 1994. It addresses different aspects of mechanics problems in geodynamics involving tectonic analyses, lithospheric structures, rheology and the fracture of earth media, mantle flow, either globally or regionally, and either by forward or inverse analyses or numerical simulation.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Mechanics, Peking University, Beijing, China

    Ren Wang

  • Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Keiiti Aki

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mechanics Problems in Geodynamics Part I

  • Editors: Ren Wang, Keiiti Aki

  • Series Title: Pageoph Topical Volumes

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-9065-6

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Verlag 1995

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-5104-5Published: 26 January 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-9065-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2504-3625

  • Series E-ISSN: 2504-3633

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 373

  • Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Geophysics/Geodesy, Geology

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