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Dynamics of Faulting and Folding

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We are turning our attention now to some smaller features of the Earth’s surface as compared with those which have been considered in the preceding parts of this book. Such features are relatively easily amenable to an investigation of their physical causes because of the very smallness of the scale of the phenomena.

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  1. Research Associate Imperial Oil Limited, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Adrian E. Scheidegger Ph. D. (Toronto); Dipl. Phys. Eth. (Zürich)

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Scheidegger, A.E. (1958). Dynamics of Faulting and Folding. In: Principles of Geodynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-01532-2_7

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