Tom G. Blenkinsop Libros

Focusing on deformation microstructures and mechanisms in minerals and rocks, this guide offers a systematic approach for recognition and interpretation at the thin section scale. It highlights diagnostic features through high-quality photomicrographs and diagrams. The text categorizes deformation into three main classes and logically progresses from low- to high-grade deformation. Innovative chapters cover magmatic deformation, shear sense indicators, and shock microstructures, while the final chapter links microstructures to quantitative analyses of Earth's behavior, summarizing recent experimental research.

Concepts and methods of fractal geometry penetrate various branches of human knowledge to an increasing degree. This tendency is particularly striking in the geosciences, because many processes occurring in and on the Earth result in time dependences and spatial patterns that have a fractal character. The contributions in this volume arose from the „3rd International Symposium on Fractals and Dynamic Systems in Geosciences“, held at Stara Lesna, Slovakia in June, 1997. The volume contains new ideas and applications of fractal geometry in such diverse branches of geoscience as engineering geology, the physics of the lithosphere (including faulting, seismicity, and fluid flow), and climate behavior.