Download or read book Folding and Fracturing of Rocks written by John G. Ramsay and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1967 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Folding and Fracturing of Rocks was first published in 1967. It was one of the first major publications aimed at developing for geologists the basic theory of stress and strain in mathematical terms and explaining how this theory could be used to solve practical problems in structural geology and tectonics. Although out-of-print for many years, it is still one of the most frequently cited and quoted texts in modern research publications in structural geology.