Fossil Earthquakes: The Formation and Preservation of Pseudotachylytes

• Main Author: Lin, Aiming (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Earth Sciences, 111
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Geology.; Structural geology.; Mineralogy.; Geophysics.; Natural disasters.; Earth Sciences.; Natural Hazards.; Structural Geology.; Geophysics/Geodesy.

The topics covered in this book encompass the principl results of field investigations, analyses of meso-scale and micro-scale textures and structures, laboratory experiments, chemical analyses, conceptual fault models, as well as the implications of fault related pseudotachylyte an its related faul...

Table of Contents:

• Terminology and Origin of Pseudotachylyte
• Pseudotachylyte-Related Fault Rocks and Conceptual Fault Models
• Tectonic Environment and Structure of Pseudotachylyte Veins
• Pseudotachylyte Matrix
• Microlites
• Fragments Within Pseudotachylyte Veins
• Chemical Composition and Melting Processes of Pseudotachylyte
• Formation of Pseudotachylyte in the Brittle and Plastic Regimes
• Crushing-Origin Pseudotachylyte and Veinlet Cataclastic Rocks
• Landslide-related Pseudotachylyte
• Experimentally Generated Pseudotachylyte.