Christopher H. Scholz

Broschiertes Buch

The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting

Beschreibung

Scholz's classic text provides a unified treatment of earthquakes and faulting. This major update presents a wealth of new topics, including slow earthquakes; friction of phyllosilicates; fault structures; seismogenic versus creeping faults; triggering of earthquakes; oceanic, megathrust and deep earthquakes; and earthquake precursory phenomena.

Autor

Christopher Scholz is an emeritus professor at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University where, over his fifty-year career, he has published over 300 papers on rock mechanics, fault mechanics, and the physics of earthquakes. He is a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union, and has been awarded the Murcheson Medal by The Geological Society of London, and the Reid Medal by the Seismology Society of America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 540
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 189mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 1188g
• ISBN-13: 9781316615232
• ISBN-10: 1316615235
• Artikelnr.: 52640003