Book Description:
Structural geology includes features of and overlaps with facets of geomorphology, metamorphism and geotechnical studies. By studying the three dimensional structure of rocks and regions, inferences on tectonic history, past geological environments and deformation events can be made. These can be fixed in time using stratigraphical controls as well as geochronology, to determine when the structural features formed. This book provides leading-edge research on this field from around the world.

Table of Contents:
Preface

Chapter 1. Medium P/T Metamorphism in a Subduction Zone: A New Type of Regional Metamorphism in Japanese Accretionary Complexes, Inferred From b Cell Dimension of Potassic White Mica, pp.1-19
(Soichi Osozawa, Department of Geology, Graduate School of Science, Tohoku University, Sendai, Toru Koitabashi, Watami Food Service, Tokyo, Tamarokuto Science Center, Martin Flower, Earth and Environmental Science, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA)

Chapter 2. Computational Simulation of Geological Phenomena Using the Particle Simulation Method, pp. 21-48
(Chongbin Zhao, Computational Geosciences Research Centre, Central South University, China)

Chapter 3. Tectonic Relationship Between the Course Change of the Yangtze River and Indo-Asia Collision, pp. 49-62
(Aiming Lin, Graduate School of Science and Technology, Shizuoka University, Japan, Zhiming Sun, Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, Zhenyu Yang, Institute of Geomechanics, Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, Beijing, Department of Geosciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China)

Chapter 4. Fault-Related Carbonate Rocks and Earthquake Indicators: Recent Advances and Future Trends, pp. 63-86
(Andrea Billi, Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, Universitá Roma Tre, Roma, Giulio Di Toro, Dipartimento di Geoscienze, Universitá di Padova, Instituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, Unitá operativa di Padova, Italy)

Chapter 5. Faults Activity, Landslides and Fluvial Catchments Triggered by the 28 December 1908 Messina Strait Earthquake (Italy), pp. 87-97
(Pierpaolo Guarnieri, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Catania, Italy)

Chapter 6. Earthquake and Fault Propagation, Displacement and Damage Zones, pp. 99-117
(Young-Seog Kim, Department of Environmental Geosciences, Pukyong National University, Korea, David J. Sanderson, School of Civil Engineering and the Environment, University of Southampton, U.K.)

Chapter 7. A Universal Method to Compute the Finite Strain Ellipsoid for any Strain Combinations, pp. 119-128
(Cécile BUISSON and Olivier Merle, Laboratoire Magmas et Volcans)

Index