Aspects of Tectonic Faulting: In Honour of Georg Mandl

ISBN-13: 9783642640537 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 226 str.

F. K. Lehner; J. L. Urai; W. Van Der Zee

Opis

This Volume brings together twelve contributions to a symposium held in hon our of GEORG MANDL at the University of Graz, Austria on December 1-2, 1995, in the year of his 70th anniversary. It is a tribute to a formidable scientist colleague and friend and a gift of gratitude to an inspiring leader and great in stigator. A man, who began as a theoretical physicist, made fundamental contri butions to the theory of transport processes in porous media and the mechanics of granular materials, but in his forties turned to structural geology and the me chanics of tectonic faulting - a subject that has since remained at the center of his interests and the understanding of which was substantially advanced by Georg Mandl's work. In addressing different aspects of tectonic faulting, mostly if not entirely from a theoretician's or modeler's point of view, the contribu tions to this Volume reveal some of the astonishing richness of the subject, the corresponding diversity in approaches and also challenges that lie ahead. They aptly evoke the broad scientific culture brought by Georg Mandl to the study of his favourite subject, a culture he had acquired in the course of a career in a nowadays rare environment of industrial research and which interested readers will find sketched in the Biographical Note included in this Volume. As such, as well as in their own right, the papers contributed to this Festschrift should be of interest to a wider community of Earth scientists.

Spis treści

Biography of Georg Mandl.- List of Publications by Georg Mandl.- List of Contributors.- Numerical Experiments on Rough Joints in Shear Using a Bonded Particle Model.- On the Competition of Interplate Shear and Surface Erosion at Convergent Plate Boundaries.- Approximate Theory of Substratum Creep and Associated Overburden Deformation in Salt Basins and Deltas.- Fractal Concepts and their Application to Earthquakes in Austria.- A Plasticity Model for Discontinua.- Folding and Localized Faulting in a Frictional, Cohesive Overburden Resting over a Viscous Substratum.- Structural Evolution within an Extruding Block: Model and Application to the Alpine-Pannonian System.- In-situ Stress Measurements in Model Experiments of Tectonic Faulting.- Development of Joint Sets in the Vicinity of Faults.- Dynamic Triggering of Fault Slip.- Normal Fault Growth: Evolution of Tipline Shapes and Slip Distribution.- Subject Index.