Christopher H. Scholz

The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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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

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface to the first edition
Preface to the second edition
Preface to the third edition
1. Brittle fracture of rock
2. Rock friction
3. Mechanics of faulting
4. Mechanics of earthquakes
5. The seismic cycle
6. Seismotronics
7. Earthquake prediction and hazard analysis
References
Index.