| Subduction: Insights from Physical Modeling 1994 Edition Contributor(s): Shemenda, Alexander I. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0792330420 ISBN-13: 9780792330424 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $161.49 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 1994 Annotation: This book is devoted to the quantitative physical modeling of subduction and subduction-related processes. It presents a coherent description of the modeling method (including similarity criteria, and a novel applied experimental technique), results from model experiments, theoretical analysis of results on the basis of continuum mechanics, and their geodynamic interpretation. Subduction is modeled in general as well as applied to particular regions using both 2-D and 3-D approaches, with both slab-push and slab-pull driving forces. The modeling covers all stages from subduction initiation to death', different regimes of subduction producing back arc extension and compression, blocking of subduction and jumps of subduction zone, arc-continent collision and continental subduction. This work is for geologists and geophysicists interested in geodynamics of the convergent plate boundaries and in mechanics of the lithosphere. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Earth Sciences - Geology - Science | Physics - Geophysics - Science | Earth Sciences - Oceanography |
| Dewey: 551.136 |
| LCCN: 94030335 |
| Series: Modern Approaches in Geophysics |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.11 lbs) 217 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book is devoted to the quantitative physical modeling of subduction and subduction-related processes. It presents a coherent description of the modeling method (including similarity criteria, and a novel applied experimental technique), results from model experiments, theoretical analysis of results on the basis of continuum mechanics, and their geodynamic interpretation. Subduction is modeled in general as well as applied to particular regions using both 2-D and 3-D approaches, with both slab-push and slab-pull driving forces. The modeling covers all stages from subduction initiation to death', different regimes of subduction producing back arc extension and compression, blocking of subduction and jumps of subduction zone, arc-continent collision and continental subduction. This work is for geologists and geophysicists interested in geodynamics of the convergent plate boundaries and in mechanics of the lithosphere. |