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- Title: Paleostress Inversion Techniques: Methods and Applications for Tectonics
- Author: Christophe Pascal
- Publisher: Elsevier
- Pages: 278
Paleostress Inversion Techniques: Methods and Applications for Tectonics is an ideal reference for both academic and industry researchers in the Earth Sciences. The book introduces the methodologies developed to reconstruct (paleo) stress tensors from geological data. The interest and potential outcomes of the methods are illustrated by practical examples and supplementary electronic material and an overview on future research directions.
Paleostress inversion methods help analyze tectonics at various scales, predicting fracture orientations, fluid flow paths, and mineralizations, making this book a valuable resource.
Paleostress inversion involves quantifying past stress from natural fractures, at the intersection of structural geology and continuum mechanics.
Like many other disciplines that evolved from classical field geology, paleostress analysis attempts to bridge observation of the nature and mathematics. The move follows the general quantification trend of many scientific areas, although the path to walk is often rough and sinuous, especially for geological science that are more rooted in observation than in experimentation.
- List of Content
- Brittle structures in the field
- Theoretical aspects
- Fault slip inversion methods
- Inversion of tensile fractures
- Inversion of calcite twins
- Determining paleostresses with ‘incomplete’ data
- One step beyond: Full determination of paleostress tensors
- Some examples of applications of stress inversion
- Some examples of applications of stress inversion methods in tectonic analyses
- A practical guide to paleostress analysis