Mechanics Problems in Geodynamics Part I

1. Front Matter

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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

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.

• Deformation
• Geodynamik
• Geophysik
• Seismologie
• geophysics

• Department of Mechanics, Peking University, Beijing, China

  Ren Wang

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

  Keiiti Aki

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