Contents
Read the Preface to the Second Edition
- A. Fundamentals
- 1. Overview
- 2. Primary and Nontectonic Structures
- 3. Force and Stress
- 4. Deformation and Strain
- 5. Rheology
- B. Brittle Structures
- 6. Brittle Deformation Processes
- 7. Joints and Veins
- 8. Faults and Faulting
- C. Ductile Structures
- 9. Ductile Deformation Processes and Microstructures
- 10. Folds and Folding
- 11. Foliations and Lineations
- 12. Ductile Shear Zones, Textures and Transposition
- 13. Deformation, Metamorphism and Time
- D. Tectonics
- 14. Whole Earth Structure and Plate Tectonics
- 15. Geophysical Imaging, Frederick A. Cook
- 16. Extension Tectonics
- 17. Contraction Tectonics
- 18. Fold-Thrust Belts, M. Scott Wilkerson
- 19. Strike-Slip Tectonics
- E. Regional Perspectives
- 20. A Global View
- 21. Eastern Hemisphere:
- 21.1 The European Alps, Stefan Schmid
- 21.2. The Tibetan Plateau Region, Leigh H. Royden and B. Clark Burchfiel
- 21.3. The Altaids, Celal Sengor and Boris A. Natal’in
- 21.4. The Tasmanides, David R. Gray and David A. Foster
- 22. Western Hemisphere
- 22.1 The North American Cordillera, Elizabeth L. Miller
- 22.2. The Cascadia Subduction Wedge, Mark Brandon
- 22.3 The Andes, Richard W. Allmendinger and Teresa E. Jordan
- 22.4 The Appalachians, James P. Hibbard
- 22.5 The Caledonides, Kevin T. Pickering and Alan G. Smith
- 22. 6 The Tectonic Genealogy of North America, Paul F. Hoffman
- 22. 7 Continental-Interior Tectonics
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