You can download Structural Geology Second Edition ebook here.
- Title: Structural Geology
- Author: Haakon Fossen
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN: 978-1-107-05764-7
- Page: 1713 pages
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-color 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 for most chapters and further reinforce key topics using summaries, innovative animations to bring concepts to life, and additional examples and figures.
Haakon Fossen is Professor of Structural Geology at the University of Bergen, Norway, where he is affiliated with the Department of Earth Science and the Natural History Collections. His professional career has involved work as an exploration and production geologist/geophysicist for Statoil and as a Professor at the University of Bergen (1996 to present), in addition to periods of geologic mapping and mineral exploration in Norway. His research ranges from hard to soft rocks and includes studies of folds, shear zones, formation and collapse of the Caledonian Orogen, numerical modeling of deformation (transpression), the evolution of the North Sea rift, and studies of deformed sandstones in the western United States.
He has conducted extensive field work in various parts of the world, notably Norway, Utah/Colorado, and Sinai, and his research is based on field mapping, microscopy, physical and numerical modeling, geochronology and seismic interpretation. Professor Fossen has been involved in editing several international geology journals, has authored over 100 scientific publications, and has written two other books and several book chapters. He has taught undergraduate structural geology courses for twenty years and has a keen interest in eveloping electronic teaching resources to aid student visualization and understanding of geological structures.
- List of Content
- Structural geology and structural analysis
- Deformation
- Strain in rocks
- Stress
- Stress in the lithosphere
- Rheology
- Fracture and brittle deformation
- Joints and veins
- Faults
- Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
- Deformation at the microscale
- Folds and folding
- Foliation and cleavage
- Lineations
- Boudinage
- Shear zones and mylonites
- Contractional regimes
- Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
- Salt tectonics
- Balancing and restoration
- A glimpse of a larger picture