Structural Geology

This market-leading textbook has been updated to include a chapter on joints and veins, additional examples and stunning new photos.

Haakon Fossen (Author)

9781107057647, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 3 March 2016

524 pages, 6 b/w illus. 557 colour illus. 2 tables 210 exercises
28.5 x 22.5 x 2.6 cm, 1.65 kg

'A great online text book. Well-written, beautiful and meaningful sketches and photographs.' Timothy Byrne, Professor of Geosciences, University of Connecticut

This market-leading textbook has been fully updated in response to extensive user feedback. It includes a new chapter on joints and veins, additional examples from around the world, stunning new field photos, and extended online resources with new animations and exercises. The book's practical emphasis, hugely popular in the first edition, features applications in the upper crust, including petroleum and groundwater geology, highlighting the importance of structural geology in exploration and exploitation of petroleum and water resources. Carefully designed full-colour illustrations work closely with the text to support student learning, and are supplemented with high-quality photos from around the world. Examples and parallels drawn from practical everyday situations engage students, and end-of chapter review questions help them to check their understanding. Updated e-learning modules are available online (www.cambridge.org/fossen2e) and further reinforce key topics using summaries, innovative animations to bring concepts to life, and additional examples and figures.

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of symbols
1. Structural geology and structural analysis
2. Deformation
3. Strain in rocks
4. Stress
5. Stress in the lithosphere
6. Rheology
7. Fracture and brittle deformation
8. Joints and veins
9. Faults
10. Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
11. Deformation at the microscale
12. Folds and folding
13. Foliation and cleavage
14. Lineations
15. Boudinage
16. Shear zones and mylonites
17. Contractional regimes
18. Extensional regimes
19. Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
20. Salt tectonics
21. Balancing and restoration
22. A glimpse of a larger picture
Appendix A. More about the deformation matrix
Appendix B. Spherical projections
Glossary
References
Cover and chapter image captions
Index.

Subject Areas: Geology & the lithosphere [RBG], Geophysics [PHVG]