Paleostress Inversion Techniques
Methods and Applications for Tectonics
- 1st Edition - November 18, 2021
- Author: Christophe Pascal
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 9 1 0 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 1 9 4 7 - 1
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Request a sales quotePaleostress Inversion Techniques: Methods and Applications for Tectonics is an ideal reference for both academic and industry researchers in the Earth Sciences. The book introduces the methodologies developed to reconstruct (paleo) stress tensors from geological data. The interest and potential outcomes of the methods are illustrated by practical examples and supplementary electronic material and an overview on future research directions. As paleostress inversion methods are particularly useful in tectonic analyses at regional and local scales and their outcomes are relevant when trying to predict the orientations of fracture sets and potential fluid flow paths and associated mineralizations, this book provides an ideal resource.
- Includes detailed explanations of methods, along with concrete applications of paleostress inversion techniques
- Clearly illustrates the outcomes, advantages and limitations of the techniques
- Serves as a practical guide for both academics and industry researchers interested in structural geology, geodynamics and tectonics
Geologists, geophysicists, exploration geologists, seismologists. Professionals in the mining, oil and gas, and geothermal industries
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Brittle structures in the field
- Abstract
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Classification of brittle structures
- 2.3: Faults and criteria of displacement
- 2.4: Chronology criteria
- 2.5: Field measurements and writing conventions
- 3: Theoretical aspects
- Abstract
- 3.1: From force to stress and stress tensor
- 3.2: Fracture mechanics
- 4: Fault slip inversion methods
- Abstract
- 4.1: Background of fault slip inversion methods
- 4.2: Numerical inversion of fault slip data
- 4.3: Right dihedra method
- 4.4: Validity and limits of fault slip inversion methods
- 5: Inversion of tensile fractures
- Abstract
- 5.1: Pore fluid pressure and opening of pre-existing discontinuities
- 5.2: Numerical inversion
- 5.3: Further remarks
- 6: Inversion of calcite twins
- Abstract
- 6.1: Calcite twins: Definitions and general aspects
- 6.2: Calcite twins as paleopiezometers: Early studies
- 6.3: Inversion methods
- 6.4: Validation of the calcite stress inversion technique
- 7: Determining paleostresses with ‘incomplete’ data
- Abstract
- 7.1: Forward modelling
- 7.2: Paleostress reconstructions from fault slip sense data
- 7.3: Geomechanical approaches
- 8: One step beyond: Full determination of paleostress tensors
- Abstract
- 8.1: Paleostress magnitudes from geological objects
- 8.2: Adjustment of reduced Mohr circles using failure and reactivation laws
- 8.3: Pore fluid paleopressure determinations from analyses of fluid inclusions
- 8.4: Stylolithe paleopiezometry
- 9: Some examples of applications of stress inversion methods in tectonic analyses
- Abstract
- 9.1: Fault slip data, paleostresses and evolution of the Alpine–Mediterranean system
- 9.2: Stress determinations from inversion of focal mechanisms
- 9.3: Stress magnitudes in forelands of orogens from inversion of calcite twins
- 10: A practical guide to paleostress analysis
- Abstract
- 10.1: Data acquisition
- 10.2: Processing of the data
- 10.3: Reporting
- References
- Index
- No. of pages: 274
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 18, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128119105
- eBook ISBN: 9780128119471
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