Mechanics Problems in Geodynamics Part I

Mechanical Problems in Geodynamics and Work Done in China.- A Review on the Lithospheric Structures in the Tibetan Plateau and Constraints for Dynamics.- Free Oscillations of a Laterally Heterogeneous and Anelastic Earth.- The Earth's Palaeorotation, Postglacial Rebound and Lower Mantle Viscosity from Analysis of Ancient Chinese Eclipse Records.- A Preliminary Study of the Effects of Some Flow Parameters in the Generation of Poloidal and Toroidal Energies Within a 3-D Spherical Thermal-convective System with Variable Viscosity.- On the Rifting Dynamics of Plate Divergence and Magma Accumulation at Oceanic Ridge Axes.- 3-D Spherical Shell Modeling of Mantle Flow and Its Implication for Global Tectogenesis.- Coupling of Tectonic Loading and Earthquake Fault Slips at Subduction Zones.- Oblique Subduction of a Newtonian Fluid Slab.- On the Dynamics of Extensional Basin.- Rheological Information from Geological Structures.- A Method of Estimating the Stress Exponent in the Flow Law for Rocks Using Fold Shape.- The Effect of Fault-bend Folding on Seismic Velocity in the Marginal Ridge of Accretionary Prisms.- Interrelation between Fault Zone Structures and Earthquake Processes.- Analysis of Induced Seismicity for Stress Field Determination and Pore Pressure Mapping.- A New Approach to Earthquake Prediction: The Load/Unload Response Ratio (LURR) Theory.- An Earthquake Instability Model Based on Faults Containing High Fluid- pressure Compartments.- Slip-weakening Constitutive Relation and the Structure in the Vicinity of a Shear Crack Tip.- Development of Subcracks Between en echelon Fractures in Rock Plates.- In Situ Stress State in Mainland China.