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Active Faults of the World.
The first worldwide survey of active earthquake faults, providing an important basis for protecting threatened cities in the developing world.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Active Faults of the World; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: Introduction and historical perspective; 1: Methods and background; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Tectonics; 1.2.1 Introduction; 1.2.2 Plate tectonics; 1.3 Structural geology; 1.4 Seismic waves; 1.4.1 Introduction; 1.4.2 Orientation of fault plane based on earthquakes; 1.4.3 Magnitude scales; 1.5 Tectonic geodesy; 1.5.1 Terrestrial geodesy; 1.5.2 Space geodesy; 1.5.3 InSAR; 1.5.4 In situ stress; 1.6 Earthquake geology at mainshock depths; 1.7 Quaternary dating techniques; 1.7.1 Introduction; 1.7.2 Luminescence dating.
- 1.7.3 Surface-exposure dating with cosmogenic nuclides1.8 Tectonic geomorphology; 1.8.1 Introduction; 1.8.2 Scarp degradation; 1.8.3 Mountain-front sinuosity; 1.9 Weathering and soils; 1.10 Paleoseismology; 1.10.1 Introduction; 2: Alaska, Canada, Cascadia, and Eastern North America; 2.1 Introduction: the Pacific-North America plate boundary; 2.2 Alaska; 2.2.1 Introduction; 2.2.2 Aleutian subduction zone; 2.2.3 Yakutat collision zone; 2.2.4 Alaskan crustal faults; 2.3 Queen Charlotte-Fairweather transform boundary; 2.4 Northwest Canada; 2.5 Cascadia; 2.5.1 Crustal earthquakes.
- 2.6 Earthquakes in eastern North America2.6.1 Introduction; 2.6.2 New Madrid seismic zone; 2.6.3 Other seismic zones in eastern North America; 2.6.4 Continental earthquakes with surface rupture; 2.6.5 Concluding remarks; 2.7 Summary; 2.7.1 Siletzia: A large igneous province (LIP) in the hanging wall; 2.7.2 Subduction without a W-B zone; 2.7.3 Bookshelf tectonics; 2.7.4 Comparison of Aleutian and Cascadia subduction zones; 2.7.5 Subduction, coupling, and arc volcanoes; 3: San Andreas system and Basin and Range; 3.1 Introduction.
- 3.2 San Andreas fault system: introduction and historical background3.3 Mendocino Transform and Triple Junction; 3.4 Northern San Andreas fault; 3.5 San Francisco Bay region; 3.6 Creeping SAF and Parkfield; 3.7 Southern San Andreas fault; 3.8 San Jacinto fault; 3.9 Other right-lateral strike-slip faults west of the San Jacinto fault; 3.9.1 Summary statement; 3.10 Left-lateral and reverse faults west of the SAF; 3.11 Los Angeles fold-and-thrust belt; 3.12 Ventura basin; 3.13 Southern Coast Ranges; 3.14 Baja California and Gulf of California; 3.15 Left-lateral faults east of the SAF.
- 3.16 Eastern boundary faults of the Sierran microplate3.16.1 Introduction; 3.16.2 Eastern California shear zone; 3.17 Great Basin; 3.17.1 Basin and Range normal-faulted province; 3.17.2 Other Basin and Range subprovinces; 3.17.3 Rio Grande Rift; 3.17.4 Southern Basin and Range; 3.18 The Oroville earthquakes; 3.19 Summary; 3.19.1 Importance of studying San Andreas fault and Basin and Range; 3.19.2 Birth of a strike-slip fault; 3.19.3 Three time frames to establish rates of faulting; 3.19.4 Paleoseismology taken to the next level; 3.19.5 Determining offsets on a migrating triple junction.