Fossil Earthquakes: The Formation and Preservation of Pseudotachylytes

2008
ISBN: 978-3-540-74235-7
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Buch, Englisch, Band 111, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 711 g

Reihe: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences

This book focuses on the earthquake source materials produced or deformed by both seismic faulting and aseismic creep within seismogenic fault zones at different levels of the crust. In particular, the mechanisms and processes involved in the formation of earthquake materials are covered. The book is intended to help bridge the gap between seismology and geology and to encourage further studies of earthquake mechanisms and seismic faulting processes.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lin, Aiming

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geologie Tektonik, Strukturgeologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geomorphologie, Erosion, Glaziologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Vulkanologie, Seismologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Geophysik
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geodäsie, Kartographie, GIS, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Petrologie, Mineralogie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geodäsie, Kartographie, Fernerkundung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Naturgewalten & Katastrophen
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Geophysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Terminology and Origin of Pseudotachylyte.- Pseudotachylyte-Related Fault Rocks and Conceptual Fault Models.- Tectonic Environment and Structure of Pseudotachylyte Veins.- Pseudotachylyte Matrix.- Microlites.- Fragments Within Pseudotachylyte Veins.- Chemical Composition and Melting Processes of Pseudotachylyte.- Formation of Pseudotachylyte in the Brittle and Plastic Regimes.- Crushing-Origin Pseudotachylyte and Veinlet Cataclastic Rocks.- Landslide-related Pseudotachylyte.- Experimentally Generated Pseudotachylyte.