This graduate textbook presents a comprehensive, unified treatment of the materials science of deformation as applied to solid earth geophysics and geology. This textbook is ideal for graduate courses on the rheology and dynamics of solid Earth

The book is also a much-needed reference for geoscientists in many fields including geology, geophysics, geochemistry, materials science, mineralogy and ceramics, and includes review questions with solutions so readers can monitor their understanding of the material presented.


Brief Contents
Preface
Part I General background
1 Stress and strain
2 Thermodynamics
3 Phenomenological theory of deformation
Part II Materials science of deformation
4 Elasticity
5 Crystalline defects
6 Experimental techniques for study of plastic deformation
7 Brittle deformation, brittle-plastic and brittle-ductile transition
8 Diffusion and diffusional creep
9 Dislocation creep
10 Effects of pressure and water
11 Physical mechanisms of seismic wave attenuation
12 Deformation of multi-phase materials
13 Grain size
14 Lattice-preferred orientation
15 Effects of phase transformations
16 Stability and localization of deformation
Part III Geological and geophysical applications
17 Composition and structure of Earth's interior
18 Inference of rheological structure of Earth from time-dependent deformation
19 Inference of rheological structure of Earth from mineral physics
20 Heterogeneity of Earth structure and its geodynamic implications
21 Seismic anisotropy and its geodynamic implications
References
Materials index
Subject index

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