The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting

The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting
Christopher H Scholz
This essential reference for graduate students and researchers provides a unified treatment of earthquakes and faulting as two aspects of brittle tectonics at different timescales.‎ The intimate connection between the two is manifested in their scaling laws and populations, which evolve from fracture growth and interactions between fractures.‎ The connection between faults and the seismicity generated is governed by the rate and state dependent friction laws - producing distinctive seismic styles of faulting and a gamut of earthquake phenomena including aftershocks, afterslip, earthquake triggering, and slow slip events.‎

Year: 2019
Edition: 3rd
Language: english
Pages: 512
ISBN 10: 1316615235
ISBN 13: 9781316615232
File: PDF, 97.‎40 MB