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Faulting in Brittle Rocks

An Introduction to the Mechanics of Tectonic Faults

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Authors:
  1. Georg Mandl

    1. Feldkirch, Austria

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  • Mathematical formalism is restricted to a minimum

  • Practical approach with several application examples

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-X
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  2. Stress and Strain in Rocks

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 1-59

  3. The Stress Circle

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 60-70

  4. The Brittle Regime

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 71-112

  5. The Coulomb — Mohr Theory of Faulting

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 113-163

  6. Poro — Thermo — Elasticity of Rocks

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 164-214

  7. Fault Structures

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 215-297

  8. Slip, Reactivation and Termination of Faults

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 298-375

  9. Parallel Faults

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 376-406

  10. Modelling of Faulting Scaling Problems

    • Georg Mandl
    Pages 407-428

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 429-434
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About this book

This book provides an introduction into the mechanics of faulting in the brittle crust of the Earth. It developed from my annual two-semester course on tectono­ mechanics for graduate students of engineering geology and of rock engineering at the Technical University of Graz (Austria). In this course, it is not my task to present a broad exposition and geometrical description of geological structures, but rather to focus on the mechanical processes that produce the structures. Although this was also the aim of my former book "Mechanics of Tectonic Faulting - Models and Basic Concepts" (1988, Elsevier), henceforth referred to as MTF, the present book is different in organisation and content, in order to meet the requirements of the courses and to include more recent developments. Instead of following the traditional subdivision into extensional, compressional and strike-slip faulting, the presentation focuses on mechanical aspects of tectonic faulting that are common to various, or even all types of tectonic faults in the brittle regime. In this way, geometrically disparate or dissimilar fault structures may be revealed as closely related by the underlying mechanical process, and complex structures may be better understood. It may be useful to indicate how the chapters in the book are organised. The first three chapters are an introduction to rock mechanics, tailored to applications in geology. It also presents the extremely useful graphical method of Mohr's stress circle, which is freely used throughout the book to keep the mathematics to an absolute minimum.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Feldkirch, Austria

    Georg Mandl

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Faulting in Brittle Rocks

  • Book Subtitle: An Introduction to the Mechanics of Tectonic Faults

  • Authors: Georg Mandl

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-04262-5

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-66436-9Published: 26 November 1999

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08570-3Published: 01 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-04262-5Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 434

  • Number of Illustrations: 286 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Geology, Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences, Mineral Resources

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