The initiation, propagation, and arrest of joints and other fractures
By: edited by J.W. Cosgrove and T. Engelder.
Contributors: Cosgrove, J. W.; Engelder, T.
Series: Geological Society special publication ;; no. 231
Publisher: Geological Society
Published: 2004
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 330
Subjects: Joints (Geology); Faults (Geology); Rocks -- Cleavage.; Rocks -- Fatigue.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Opening histories of fractures in sandstone -- S.E. Laubach ... [et al.]; title: Growth of ductile opening-mode fractures in geomaterials -- P. Eichhubl; title: Age and depth evidence for pre-exhumation joints in granite plutons -- P. Bankwitz ... [et al.]; title: Feedback between joint-zone development and downward erosion of regularly spaced canyons in the Navajo sandstone, Zion National Park, Utah -- C.M. Rogers & T. Engelder; title: Predicting fracture swarms, the influence of subcritical crack growth and the cracktip process zone on joint spacing in rock -- J. E. Olson; title: Fracture-pattern variations around a major fold and their implications regarding fracture prediction using limited data / M. Belayneh & J.W. Cosgrove --; title: Index of hackle raggedness on joint fringes -- D. Bahat, P. Bankwitz & E. Bankwitz; title: Arrest and aperture variation of hydrofractures in layered reservoirs -- S.L. Brenner & A. Gudmundsson; title: Preferential jointing of Upper Devonian black shale, Appalachian Plateau, USA -- G. Lash, S. Loewy and T. Engelder; title: Using differential geometry to characterize and analyse the morphology of plants -- D. D. Pollard, S. Bergbauer & I. Mynatt; title: Relationship of tilt and twist of fringe cracks in granite plutons -- P. Bankwitz, E. Bankwitz; title: Differences between veins and joints using the example of the Jurassic limestones of Somerset -- D.C.P. Peacock; title: Fracture development within a straovolcano -- M. Nemčok ... [et al.] 2; title: Palaeostress orientation inferred from  surface morphology of joints on the souern margin of the Bristol Channel Basin, UK -- M. Belayner; title: Eight distinct fault-joint geometric/genetic relationships in the Beer Sheva syncline, Israel -- D. Bahat; title: Probabilistic-mechanistic simulation of bed-normal joint patterns / W. Hoffman, W.M. Dunne --; title: Orientation distribution of single joint sets -- T. Engelder & J. Delter; title: Stress-controlled localization of deformation and fluid flow in fractured rocks -- D. J. Sanderson & X. Jhang; title: Indentation pits -- T Engelder, K. Schulmann & O. Lexa.