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This book, filling an editorial gap, provides a comprehensive treatment of the emplacement mechanisms of nappes and thrust sheets. In the first chapter the basic concepts of thrusting are explained and a short overview of thrust geometry is presented. In chapter 2 the problem of the emplacement of nappes is discussed in its historical framework. The mechanical and kinematical models of nappe emplacement are presented in chapters 3 and 4. In the final chapter a number of examples from the Alpine chain is analyzed. Audience: This volume can be considered as a reference work of the utmost value for Earth scientists in general and can be used as a graduate text for courses addressing displacement geology.

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Book category Książki po angielsku Mathematics & science Physics Applied physics

• Full title: Emplacement Mechanisms of Nappes and Thrust Sheets
• Author: Olivier Merle
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 160
• EAN: 9789048149674
• ISBN: 9048149673
• ID: 01973788
• Publisher: Springer
• Weight: 250 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 159 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 07. December 2010

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