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Author : Edward A. Keller,Nicholas Pinter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Earthquakes
ISBN : 0023046015
Author : National Research Council,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Geophysics Research Forum,Geophysics Study Committee
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780309036382
Over 250,000 people were killed in the Tangshan, China earthquake of 1976, and other less active tectonic processes can disrupt river channels or have a grave impact on repositories of radioactive wastes. Since tectonic processes can be critical to many human activities, the Geophysics Study Committee Panel on Active Tectonics has presented an evaluation of the current state of knowledge about tectonic events, which include not only earthquakes but volcanic eruptions and similar events. This book addresses three main topics: the tectonic processes and their rates, methods of identifying and evaluating active tectonics, and the effects of active tectonics on society.
Author : Edward A. Keller,Nicholas Pinter
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Nature
ISBN : UCSD:31822031257207
New applications to geology and tectonics. Increased material on Quaternary chronology, including lichen chronology and micro stratigraphy of desert varnish. New studies, including research in the Olympic Mountains, Nepal, Australia, Taiwan, the Himalaya, and the New Madrid seismic zone of the central United States. New techniques such as cosmogenic surface-exposure dating, argon and helium geobarometry and geothermometry, regional hyposometric analysis using digital elevation models,
Author : Paul Mann
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780813723853
Author : Conrad Schindler,Martin Pfister
Publisher : vdf Hochschulverlag AG
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3728124257
Author : Jeffrey T. Freymueller,Peter J. Haeussler,Robert L. Wesson,Göran Ekström
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781118671832
Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 179. This multidisciplinary monograph provides the first modern integrative summary focused on the most spectacular active tectonic systems in North America. Encompassing seismology, tectonics, geology, and geodesy, it includes papers that summarize the state of knowledge, including background material for those unfamiliar with the region; address global hypotheses using data from Alaska; and test important global hypotheses using data from this region. It is organized around four major themes: subduction and great earthquakes at the Aleutian Arc, the transition from strike slip to accretion and subduction of the Yakutat microplate, the Denali fault and related structures and their role in accommodating permanent deformation of the overriding plate, and regional integration and large-scale models and the use of data from Alaska to address important global questions and hypotheses. The book's publication near the beginning of the National Science Foundation's EarthScope project makes it especially timely because Alaska is perhaps the least understood area within the EarthScope footprint, and interest in the region can be expected to rise with time as more EarthScope data become available.
Author : R. Jayangondaperumal,V. C. Thakur,V. Joevivek,Priyanka Singh Rao,Anil Kumar Gupta
Publisher : Springer
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9789811082436
The book contributes to understanding the pattern of strain release and the level of seismic hazard imposed by large-great earthquakes in the frontal fold-thrust belts of Kumaun and Garhwal regions of Uttarakhand. The motivation for active fault studies and their characterization have been emphasized. The book presents the compilation of knowledge garnered in multidisciplinary or proxy studies involved in the understanding of seismic hazard in general and Kumaun–Garhwal Himalaya regions in particular with lucid new maps draped on modern Cartosat or SRTM DEM data. It also discusses satellite image calibration, active faults identifications, and map productions with flowchart. The book discusses window-wise active fault elements with attributes together with the tectonic geomorphic map. It also includes active fault scarp with topographic profile along with field photographs. Finally, it reviews all existing seismotectonic models of the Himalaya, its earthquake hazard, and its vulnerability, specifically for Kumaun and Garhwal regions.
Author : Beth Shaw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642208041
This thesis is remarkable for the wide range of the techniques and observations used and for its insights, which cross several disciplines. It begins by solving a famous puzzle of the ancient world, which is what was responsible for the tsunami that destroyed settlements in the eastern Mediterranean in 365 AD. By radiocarbon dating of preserved marine organisms, Shaw demonstrates that the whole of western Crete was lifted out of the sea by up to 10 meters in a massive earthquake at that time, which occured on a previously unknown fault. The author shows that the resulting tsunami would have the characteristics described by ancient writers, and uses modern GPS measurements and coastline geomorphology to show that the strain build-up near Crete requires such a tsunami-earthquake about every 6.000 years - a major insight into Mediterranean tsunami hazard. A detailed seismological study of earthquakes in the Cretan arc over the last 50 years reveals other important features of its behaviour that were previously unknown. Finally, she provides fundamental insights into the limitations of radiocarbon dating marine organisms, relating to how they secrete carbon into their skeletons. The thesis resulted in three major papers in top journals.
Author : James F. Dolan,Paul Mann
Publisher : Geological Society of America
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0813723264
Author : Stanley A. Schumm,Jean F. Dumont,John M. Holbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521661102
Describes how rivers respond to active tectonics for graduate students, consultants and academic researchers.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Geology
ISBN : IND:30000107658894
Author : Eldridge M. Moores,Robert J. Twiss
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781478626602
Deformation of the Earth’s crust happens at a multitude of scales, ranging from submicroscopic to planetary. Tectonics explores structures and processes from regional to global, differentiating itself from the material covered in most structural geology textbooks. Moores and Twiss emphasize basic principles and methodologies of tectonics, embracing the time-honored perspective of using present processes to understand the past. Comprehensive in scope and detail, coverage includes the effects of plate motions and reconstructions and the resultant structures associated with active rift, transform, and subduction boundaries as well as triple junctions and collision zones; deformations of both the ocean basins and the continents; and orogenic belts. Moores and Twiss present tectonics as an open-ended field of study in which assumptions can be challenged and interpretations changed. The authors emphasize the use of models as a means of understanding observations and putting them in context to maintain a distinction between what we know from observing the Earth and what we infer from interpretation.
Author : Frank J. Pazzaglia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Geology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017337580
Author : Geophysics Study Committee,Geophysics Research Forum,Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications,Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences,National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0309073952
Over 250,000 people were killed in the Tangshan, China earthquake of 1976, and other less active tectonic processes can disrupt river channels or have a grave impact on repositories of radioactive wastes. Since tectonic processes can be critical to many human activities, the Geophysics Study Committee Panel on Active Tectonics has presented an evaluation of the current state of knowledge about tectonic events, which include not only earthquakes but volcanic eruptions and similar events. This book addresses three main topics: the tectonic processes and their rates, methods of identifying and evaluating active tectonics, and the effects of active tectonics on society.
Author : Beth Shaw
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9783642208034
This work examines what was responsible for a tsunami that destroyed settlements in the Mediterranean in 365 AD. It details how western Crete was lifted out of the sea by up to 10 meters in a massive earthquake, which occurred on a previously unknown fault.
