Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- How to use this book
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of symbols
- 1 Structural geology and structural analysis
- 2 Deformation
- 3 Strain in rocks
- 4 Stress
- 5 Stress in the lithosphere
- 6 Rheology
- 7 Fracture and brittle deformation
- 8 Faults
- 9 Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
- 10 Deformation at the microscale
- 11 Folds and folding
- 12 Foliation and cleavage
- 13 Lineations
- 14 Boudinage
- 15 Shear zones and mylonites
- 16 Contractional regimes
- 17 Extensional regimes
- 18 Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
- 19 Salt tectonics
- 20 Balancing and restoration
- 21 A glimpse of a larger picture
- Appendix A More about the deformation matrix
- Appendix B Stereographic projection
- Glossary
- References
- Cover and chapter image captions
- Index
- References
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7 - Fracture and brittle deformation
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- How to use this book
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of symbols
- 1 Structural geology and structural analysis
- 2 Deformation
- 3 Strain in rocks
- 4 Stress
- 5 Stress in the lithosphere
- 6 Rheology
- 7 Fracture and brittle deformation
- 8 Faults
- 9 Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
- 10 Deformation at the microscale
- 11 Folds and folding
- 12 Foliation and cleavage
- 13 Lineations
- 14 Boudinage
- 15 Shear zones and mylonites
- 16 Contractional regimes
- 17 Extensional regimes
- 18 Strike-slip, transpression and transtension
- 19 Salt tectonics
- 20 Balancing and restoration
- 21 A glimpse of a larger picture
- Appendix A More about the deformation matrix
- Appendix B Stereographic projection
- Glossary
- References
- Cover and chapter image captions
- Index
- References
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- Structural Geology , pp. 119 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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, 2002, The Mechanics of Earthquakes and Faulting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1996, Relative scale and the strength and deformability of rock masses. Journal of Structural Geology 18: 1139–1149CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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and , 1991, Joint spacing in sedimentary rocks. Journal of Structural Geology 13: 1037–1048.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1988, Progress in understanding jointing over the past century. Geological Society of America Bulletin 100, 1181–1204.2.3.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1981, Anticrack model for pressure solution surfaces. Geology 9: 419–424.2.0.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1996, Compaction bands: a structural analog for anti-mode I cracks in aeolian sandstone. Tectonophysics 267: 209–228.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1959, Role of pore fluid pressure in the mechanics of overthrust faulting. I: Mechanics of fluid-filled porous solids and its application to overthrust faulting. Geological Society of America Bulletin 70: 115–205.Google Scholar
and , 1994, Effect of faulting on fluid flow in porous sandstones: petrophysical properties. American Association of Petroleum Geologists 78: 355–377.Google Scholar
and , 1978, Development of faults as zones of deformation bands and as slip surfaces in sandstones. Pure and Applied Geophysics 116: 931–942.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1999, Structural geology of the Colorado Plateau Region of southern Utah. Geological Society of America Special Paper 342: 1–157.Google Scholar
, , and , 2007, Deformation bands in sandstone: a review. Journal of the Geological Society, London 164, 755–769.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1989, Fault-fracture strain in Wingate Sandstone. Journal of Structural Geology 11: 959–974.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 2003, Cataclasis and particulate flow in faulted, poorly lithified sediments. Journal of Structural Geology 25: 317–331.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1987, Faulting mechanisms in high-porosity sandstones: New Red Sandstone, Arran, Scotland. In Deformation of Sediments and Sedimentary Rocks. Special Publication 29, London: Geological Society, pp. 91–105.Google Scholar
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