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- Title: Understanding Faults – Detecting, Dating and Modelling
- Authors: David Tanner and Chistian Brandes
- Publisher: Elsevier
- ISBN: 978-0-12-815985-9
- Pages: 540
Understanding Faults: Detecting, Dating, and Modeling (2019) offers a single resource for analyzing faults for a variety of applications, from hazard detection and earthquake processes, to geophysical exploration. The book discusses new research on fault dating, mineral growth, fault reactivation, modeling, and connects geologists and geophysicists working on fault-related studies.
Using diagrams, formulae, and worldwide case studies to illustrate concepts, the book provides geoscientists and industry experts in oil and gas with a valuable reference for detecting, modeling, analyzing and dating fault.
This book summarizes years of fault research, reflecting our views on fault analysis. We noticed that various geoscience branches emphasize faults differently, each with unique methods and theories. Consequently, a book that focuses on all aspects of faults was missing on the market.
We had two aims when compiling this book.We aim to offer a comprehensive understanding of faulting, emphasizing fault processes and detection. This book integrates various geoscience sub-disciplines focused on faults, highlighting the benefits of combining methods. It’s crucial to bridge structural geology’s fault treatment with seismological fault analysis techniques. We believe that this holistic treatment is the key to understand faults, and to develop advanced predictive fault models.
We have attempted to keep the style of the book so that students from any geo-relevant background can read it. Nevertheless, we also tried reach a level between textbook and research article to make the book interesting for the advanced reader. In addition, for reasons of brevity, some chapters are shorter than we would like; therefore we made an effort to cite the background and advanced reading in these subjects.
- List of Content
- Introduction: Definition of a fault surface, fault kinetics and displacement
- Fault mechanics and earthquakes
- Fault detection
- Numerical modelling of faults
- Faulting in the laboratory
- The growth of faults
- Direct dating of fault movement
- Fault sealing