Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Motivations and opportunities 1.1 Earthquake hazards in southern California 1.2 Radar lineaments on Venus 1.3 Faulting in a North Sea hydrocarbon reservoir 1.4 Anticracks in southern France 1.5 Mountain building on the Colorado Plateau 1.6 Concluding remarks Chapter 2 Structural mapping techniques and tools 2.1 Geographic coordinates and map projections 2.2 Local coordinates and position vectors 2.3 Orientations of structural elements 2.4 Structural mapping using GPS technology 2.5 Concluding remarks Chapter 3 Characterizing structures using differential geometry 3.1 The concept and description of lineations 3.2 The concept and description of curved surfaces 3.3 Applications of differential geometry to structural geology 3.4 Concluding remarks Chapter 4 Physical quantities, fields, dimensions, and scaling 4.1 Physical quantities and the continuum 4.2 Physical dimensions and dimensional analysis 4.3 Dimensionless groups and the scaling of structural processes 4.4 Scaled laboratory models 4.5 Concluding remarks Chapter 5 Deformation and flow 5.1 Rock deformation: some observations and a simple description 5.2 Evolving geometry of a structure: kinematic models, velocity models, and deformation 5.3 Relation between deformation and velocity fields 5.4 Velocity fields: the instantaneous state of motion 5.5 General results 5.6 Concluding remarks Chapter 6 Force, traction, and stress 6.1 Concepts of force and traction 6.2 Concept and analysis of stress 6.3 State of stress in the Earth 6.4 Concluding remarks Chapter 7 Conservation of mass and momentum 7.1 Particle dynamics 7.2 Rigid-body dynamics and statics 7.3 Conservation of mass and momentum in a deformable continuum 7.4 Field equations for the elastic solid and viscous fluid 7.5 Concluding remarks Chapter 8 Elastic deformation 8.1 Estimating rock properties from geological field tests 8.2 The idealized elastic material 8.3 Quasi-static displacement boundary value problems 8.4 Quasi-static traction boundary value problems 8.5 Elastic properties from laboratory and engineering field tests 8.6 Elastic heterogeneity and anisotropy 8.7 Concluding remarks Chapter 9 Brittle behavior 9.1 Brittle deformation in the laboratory and in the field 9.2 Strength of laboratory samples 9.3 Brittle failure in a field of homogeneous stress 9.4 Brittle failure in a field of heterogeneous stress 9.5 Fracture propagation and fault growth 9.6 Concluding remarks Chapter 10 Viscous flow 10.1 Rock deformation by viscous flow 10.2 Constitutive relations for isotropic viscous fluids 10.3 Plane and antiplane flow 10.4 Viscous flow in layers: mullions and folds 10.5 How of anisotropic viscous fluids 10.6 Concluding remarks Chapter 11 Rheological behavior 11.1 Departures from linear viscous flow 11.2 Boudinage and the non-linear power-law fluid 11.3 Coupling of viscous flow and macroscopic ditTusional transport 11.4 Continuum properties of composite materials 11.5 Anisotropic fluids and internal instability 11.6 Concluding remarks Chapter 12 Model development and methodology 12.1 Idealization of field observations 12.2 Selection of general boundary conditions 12.3 A methodology for the practice of structural geology 12.4 Concluding remarks References Index