Plastic Deformation of Minerals and Rocks / / ed. by Shun-ichiro Karato, Hans-Rudolph Wenk.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Physical Sciences 2000 - 2014
• MitwirkendeR: Bercovici, David,; Cooper, Reid F.,; Cordier, Patrick,; Dawson, Paul R.,; Durham, William B.,; Green, Harry W.,; Guillot, Laurent,; Hirth, Greg,; Karato, Shun-ichiro,; Kohlstedt, David L.,; Mackwell, Stephen J.,; Marone, Chris,; Montagner, Jean-Paul,; Paterson, Mervyn S.,; Schulson, Erland M.,; Tullis, Jan,; Wang, Yanbin,; Weidner, Donald J.,; Wenk, Hans-Rudolph,
• HerausgeberIn: Karato, Shun-ichiro,; Wenk, Hans-Rudolph,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2018]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Reviews in Mineralogy & Geochemistry , 51
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 420 p.)

Volume 51 of Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry highlights some of the frontiers in the study of plastic deformation of minerals and rocks. This book reviews large-strain shear deformation and deformation experiments under ultrahigh pressures; the issues of deformation of crustal rocks and the u...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• COPYRIGHT
• REVIEWS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• Table of Contents
• 1. New Developments in Deformation Studies: High-Strain Deformation
• 2. New Developments in Deformation Experiments at High Pressure
• 3. Deformation of Granitic Rocks: Experimental Studies and Natural Examples
• 4. Laboratory Constraints on the Rheology of the Upper Mantle
• 5. Partial Melting and Deformation
• 6. Dislocations and Slip Systems of Mantle Minerals
• 7. Instability of Deformation
• 8. Brittle Failure of Ice
• 9. Seismic Wave Attenuation: Energy Dissipation in Viscoelastic Crystalline Solids
• 10. Texture and Anisotropy
• 11. Modeling Deformation of Polycrystalline Rocks
• 12. Seismic Anisotropy and Global Geodynamics
• 13. Theoretical Analysis of Shear Localization in the Lithosphere