INTRODUCTION
TO TECTONOPHYSICS
л.ю. GONCHAROV, V.G. TALITSKY &
N.S. FROLOVA
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
Tectonophysics as a branch of science which is a boundary between
geotectonics and physics
Theoretical and practical value of understanding kinematics and
dynamics of tectonic process
Methods of tectonophysics
PART I.
TECTONOPHYSICS
OF CONTINUOUS (NOT STRUCTURED) MEDIUM
CHAPTER 1. FOUNDATIONS OF MECHANICS OF DEFORMATION AND DESTRUCTION OF
SOLID BODIES
1.1. Imagining the Earth's crust as a mechanically heterogeneous medium
1.2. Tectonic flow as a combination of translation, rotation and strain
of particles of geological continuous medium
1.3. The state of stressed continuous medium
1.4. Stress-strain interrelations (elements of rheology).
1.5. Strength and destruction of solid bodies
CHAPTER 2. FEATURES OF MECHANISM OF TECTONIC DEFORMATION
2.1. The specificity of tectonic deformation caused by great both
volumes of rock masses and duration of process
2.2. Deformation properties of rocks and rock masses
2.3. Instability of ductile deformation of a homogeneous medium
2.4. Influence of gravity on tectonic deformation
CHAPTER 3. RECONSTRUCTION OF TECTONIC STRAIN AND STRESS
3.1. Features of reconstruction of strain and stress
3.2. Natural strain indicators in the Earth's crust: deformed objects
of a different scale
3.3. Strain fields of a different rank
3.4. An approximate quantitative estimation of strain and stress
CHAPTER 4. STRUCTURAL PARAGENESES
4.1. Elementary geodynamic conditions
4.2. Structural forms (elements of a structural paragenesis) in
different elementary geodynamic conditions
4.3. Spatial combination of elementary geodynamic conditions and
corresponding structural parageneses as a result of balanced
arrangement of tectonic flow in the Earth's crust
4.4. Changing elementary geodynamic conditions and imposing
corresponding structural parageneses during tectonic flow
PART II
TECTONOPHYSICS OF STRUCTURED MEDIUM
CHAPTER 5. PHYSICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING DEFORMATION OF STRUCTURALLY
HETEROGENEOUS MEDIUM
5.1. The atomic-molecular approach
5.2. Physical meso-mechanics of structurally-heterogeneous medium
CHAPTER 6. MODELLING OF TECTONIC DEFORMATION WITH ACCOUNT OF
HETEROGENEITY OF GEOLOGICAL MEDIUM
6.1. New approaches to modeling geological medium and dynamic processes
proceeding in it
6.2. Experimental studying deformations of structured medium
conformably to mechanisms of tectogenesis
6.3. Dynamic model of formation of tectonic structures in the
geological medium
CHAPTER 7. MECHANISMS OF TECTONIC DEFORMATION AND FORMATION OF
PARAGENESES OF STRUCTURAL FORMS
7.1. Deformation of grain level and a problem of microstructures
7.2. Morphology of plane microstructures
7.3. Genesis of microstructures
7.4. Folding
7.5. Faulting
7.6. Mechanisms of formation of the most widely distributed parageneses
of structural forms of a different scale
7.7. Deformation volumetric effects and connected parageneses of
structural forms
CHAPTER 8. FOLD-THRUST PARAGENESES
8.1. Concept of thrust sheets and their classification
8.2. Structure of thrust sheets and conditions of their formation
8.3. Kinematic modeling of thrusts
8.4. A problem of origin of thrusts
PART III
PROSPECTS IN DEVELOPMENT OF CONCEPT OF GEODYNAMIC CONDITIONS AND
STRUCTURAL PARAGENESES GENERATED BY THEM
CHAPTER 9. PARAGENESIS OF RIFT VALLEYS AND TRANSFORM FAULTS OF
MID-OCEAN RIDGES AS AN EXAMPLE OF THE COMBINATION OF ELEMENTS OF
CONTINUOUS MEDIUM MECHANICS AND STRUCTURED MEDIUM MECHANICS
9.1. Cleavage
9.2. Transform faults of mid-ocean ridges
CHAPTER 10. RANK ANALYSIS AS A GENERAL TENDENCY OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE
STRUCTURAL PARAGENESES CONCEPT
10.1. Terms used in rank analysis of structural parageneses
10.2. Concept of ranks of geodynamic systems and corresponding
structural systems
CHAPTER 11. INTRODUCTION TO GEODYNAMICS OF HIERARCHICALLY INTERACTING
GEOSPHERES
11.1. Necessity of modernization of the plate tectonics concept
11.2. Overglobal geodynamic system of the 0-th rank (GS-0)
11.3. Global geodynamic system of the 1-st rank (GS-1)
11.4. Subglobal geodynamic system of the 2-nd rank (GS-2)
11.5. Overregional geodynamic system of the 3-rd rank (GS-3).
11.6. Regional geodynamic system of the 4-th rank (GS-4).
11.7. Geodynamic paragenesis of convection and advection in geospheres
of a different rank
11.8. Prospects in development of the concept of geodynamics of
hierarchically interacting geospheres
Conclusion. Modern state and
prospects in tectonophysics
Stages of development of tectonophysics
Modern state of tectonophysics
Prospects in tectonophysics
Index
Recommended references
Appendix 1. List of
designations of physical parameters and some symbols
Appendix 2. List of formulas
(with brief comments)
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