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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9 - Kinematics and paleostress in the brittle regime
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. 189 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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, 1987, Criteria for the sense of movement on fault surfaces in brittle rocks. Journal of Structural Geology 9: 597–608.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1994, Fault slip analysis and palaeostress reconstruction. In (Ed.), Continental Deformation. Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 53–100.Google Scholar
and , 1994, Fault interaction may generate multiple slip vectors on a single fault surface. Geology 22: 1123–1126.2.3.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and , 1981, An inverse problem in microtectonics for the determination of stress tensors from fault striation analysis. Journal of Structural Geology 3: 51–65.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and , 2006, Favoured states of palaeostress in the Earth's crust: evidence from fault-slip data. Journal of Structural Geology 28: 1051–1066.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1990. Kinematic analysis of fault-slip data. Journal of Structural Geology 12: 973–986.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1994, Paleostress analysis of small-scale brittle structures. In (Ed.), Continental Deformation. Oxford: Pergamon Press, pp. 101–120.Google Scholar
, 2001, Stress space: striated faults, deformation twins, and their constraints on paleostress. Journal of Structural Geology 23: 1–9.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1995, Variation in the form and distribution of dykes in the Mull swarm, Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 17: 1543–1557.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1998, Analysis of fault slip inversions: do they constrain stress or strain rate?Journal of Geophysical Research 103 (B6): 12,205–12,222.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1999, The future of failure: stress or strain?Journal of Structural Geology 21: 939–948.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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