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    In geology, the elastic-rebound theory is an explanation for how energy is released during an earthquake. As the Earth's crust deforms, the rocks which...
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    instrumentally recorded every 30–40 years. After Harry F. Reid proposed the elastic-rebound theory in 1910 based on the surface rupture record from the 1906 San Francisco...
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    faults, with energy release and rupture dynamics governed by the elastic-rebound theory. Efforts to manage earthquake risks involve prediction, forecasting...
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  • classical view of the elastic rebound theory". (This was attributed to details of fault heterogeneity not accounted for in the theory.) Earthquake prediction...
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  • other) the Earth's crust will bend or deform. According to the elastic rebound theory of Reid (1910), eventually the deformation (strain) becomes great...
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    however, as the cost of using the resource drops, if the price is highly elastic, this results in overall demand increasing, causing total resource consumption...
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    Reid put forward the "elastic rebound theory" which remains the foundation for modern tectonic studies. The development of this theory depended on the considerable...
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    Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets...
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  • accumulate enough stress to drive the next earthquake (per the elastic rebound theory), the initial multiplet quake only releases part of the pent-up...
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  • confirmation of the theories of Brownian motion by Jean Baptiste Perrin. 1910: Harry Fielding Reid put forward the elastic rebound theory for earthquakes...
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  • and there was a belief – mistaken, as it turned out – that the elastic rebound theory for explaining why earthquakes happen required a single couple model...
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  • and kill as many as 6,000 people. Harry Fielding Reid devises the elastic-rebound theory to account for earthquake mechanism. Richard Oldham argues that...
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  • Hardness (redirect from Rebound hardness)
    scratch hardness, indentation hardness, and rebound hardness. Hardness is dependent on ductility, elastic stiffness, plasticity, strain, strength, toughness...
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    In physics, an elastic collision occurs between two physical objects in which the total kinetic energy of the two bodies remains the same. In an ideal...
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    the collisions between molecules could be perfectly elastic.: 36–37  Pioneers of the kinetic theory, whose work was also largely neglected by their contemporaries...
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    electromagnetic induction Harry Fielding Reid (American, 1859–1944) – elastic-rebound theory and other contributions to seismology Roger Revelle (American, 1909–1991)...
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    stress being released by an earthquake, then renewing (or rebounding; see Elastic-rebound theory) until it triggers another earthquake. In time-dependent...
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    earthquakes in California. The Time Dependent model is based on the theory of elastic rebound, that after an earthquake releases tectonic stress there will...
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    spheres approach each other symmetrically at ±v. After elastic collision, the two spheres rebound from each other with equal and opposite velocities ±u...
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    contributions to glaciology and seismology, particularly his theory of elastic rebound that related faults to earthquakes. He was a professor of dynamical...
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    the elastic hysteresis of rubber, the area in the centre of a hysteresis loop is the energy dissipated due to material internal friction. Elastic hysteresis...
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  • Le Sage's theory of gravitation is a kinetic theory of gravity originally proposed by Nicolas Fatio de Duillier in 1690 and later by Georges-Louis Le...
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    an earthquake's energy is proportional to both the elastic rebound strain increment and the rebound displacement, and developed a way to determine whether...
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  • Isostasy (redirect from Isostatic theory)
    while flexural isostacy takes into account elastic forces from the deformation of the rigid crust. These elastic forces can transmit buoyant forces across...
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    lotus plant. A droplet striking these kinds of surfaces can fully rebound like an elastic ball. Interactions of bouncing drops can be further reduced using...
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    rod backward (i.e. "loading" the rod), and then use the "springing" (elastic rebound) of the rod to "hurl" and rapidly sling the line forward, which in...
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    The central uplift is not the result of elastic rebound, which is a process in which a material with elastic strength attempts to return to its original...
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    Polar motion (section Theory)
    redistribution of water mass as the Greenland ice sheet melts, and to isostatic rebound, i.e. the slow rise of land that was formerly burdened with ice sheets...
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    Rebound (SHR), or Ultra High Rebound (UHR). In mechanics, rebound is often characterized by its complementary property, elastic hysteresis. Rebound refers...
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    rubber invented in 1964 by chemist Norman Stingley. It is an extremely elastic ball made of Zectron, which contains the synthetic polymer polybutadiene...
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