An Introduction to Tectonophysics: Theoretical Aspects of Structural Geology
Atsushi Yamaji
Publication date: 2007, hard cover, 400+viii pp.
TERRAPUB, Tokyo
ISBN: 4887041357

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Last update: January 25, 2017.

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Mesoscale faults truncated by the angular unconformity (ca. 3 Ma) between the Miura and Kazusa Groups in central Japan. Both the formations above and below the unconformity are Pliocene in age. Two persons point at the same bed for indicating the offsets of faults between them. Mesoscale faults in the Kazusa Group, which rest on the unconformity, were used by Yamaji (2000, Journal of Structural Geology) to argue the temporal change in the stress field in the mid Pleistocene in relation to the relative plate motions around a triple plate junction.

Section 4.6

Further reading:

Delaney, P.T., Pollard, D.D., Ziony, J.I. and McKee, E.H., 1986. Field relations between dikes and joints: emplacement processes and paleosterss analysis. Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, 4920-4938.

Ziv, A., Rubin, A.M. and Agnon, A., 2000. Stability of dike intrusion along preexisting fractures. Journal of Geophysical Research, 105, 5947-5961.

Section 8.8 (p. 200)

Lunar Radar Sounder onboard the Kaguya (SELENE) spacecraft succeeded in visualizing subsurface layers under lunar maria, and provided evidence against the tectonic model of mascon loading introduced in this section.

Reference:

Ono, T., Kumamoto, A., Nakagawa, H., Yamaguchi, Y., Oshigami, S., Yamaji, A., Kobayashi, K., Kasahara Y. and Oya, H., 2009. Lunar radar sounder observations of subsurface layers under the nearside maria of the Moon. Science, 323, 909-912.

Section 11.5 (p. 284)

The multiple inverse method is implemented in the free software that is avaiable at our lab homepage. Recently, Otsubo et al. (in press, Tectonophysics) adopted the method to seismic focal mechanism data to separate stresses from temporarily or spatially heterogeneous stress field.

Appendix B (p. 328)

Angular stress distance is denoted by Theta in Yamaji and Sato (2006, Geophysical Journal International, 167, 913-942), who proposed the distance. The same quantity is denoted in this appendix by Psi, because the symbol, Theta, has been assinged to Lode angle.

Answer to Exercise 1.4 (p. 351)

Mulchrone et al. (2003, Journal of Structural Geology) and Yamaji (2005, Journal of Structural Geology) propose alternative methods for strain inversion, which not only determine the optimal strain but also evaluate the uncertainty of optimal solutions, e.g., 95% confidence intervals of the aspect ratio and major-axis orientation of the optimal strain ellipse.