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488 Pages·1994·46.021 MB·English
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M echanics in the Earth and Environmental Sciences : ~ ····a;;;··b················· - x, ax, ----~ x, The study of t e earth and the environment require an understanding of the phy ica1 proc e within and at the surfac of tb arth. Thi book will allow the tudent to evelop a broad working knowledge of mechanic and it application to the earth and environm ntal cience providing the ba k ground nece ary to tudy the profi ional literature. The only mathematical background requir d i that gi • en by a first course in calculu • all other mathematical con ept are introduced in the context of their application to the earth and en ironmental cience . or each topic ithin mechanics, the physic is developed to give an insight into a wide rang f natural phenomena. For example, th theory of stre and train i applied to land lid , rock fracture , and arthquake • the theory of flow th ugh porou media i applied to the movement of groundwater, and the compaction of ediment • and he properties of Newtonian and non- ewtonian fluid are di cus ed in the conte t of the flow of lava. ice, and debri . The breadth of application de cribed and the many worked example will help both tudtnt and profes ional to under tand th phy ical y tern at work in the earth crust and at its urface. Mechanic in th rth and nvironmental cience Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/ Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/mechanicsinearth0000midd Mechanics in the Earth and Environmental sc·ences Gerard V. Middleton Mc 1a ter U11iversi1 P ter R. Wilcock The Johns Hopki, University HCAMBRIDGE • IVER ITY PRESS Publi<,hed by the Pres Syndicate nf the nh,er ily of Cambridge Tht-Pill Building, Trumpington tree!, , mbridge B2 l RP 40 Wc~t 20th Street, 'cy, York,. 10011 _11, S JO tamford Road, akleigh, lelbourne 3166, Au tralta Q /J @ ambndge niversity Pre 1994 g' 0 g irsl pubh hed 1994 rM'-f 9 Printed in Great Britain at the ni er,i y Pre mbridge / A catalog"e record of rhis b<1okis arnilab/e from the Brmsli Ubrary Library of 011gres.c, acalogumg in publication dara Middleton. Gerard V. Mechanics in the earth and environmental . cicnce / Gerard 11ddleton, Peter R Wilcoc . p. cm Includes b1bliograph11:al r ference and mde ISB O 521 441'.!4 2 I 8 0 521 44669 pb ·) I. Mechanics, nalyLi . 2 G odynami I 'ilc ~ . Peter R. II. Title. QA808.M49 1994 550' 1'531 -<lc20 93-49455 CIP ISB O 'U 44124 2 hardba I B O 521 44669 4 paperb c • 1 G a•n\.1 L"l ..._ A.n.ftpa

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