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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10 - Deformation at the microscale
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. 203 - 218Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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, 2008, Deformation of Earth Materials: An Introduction to the Rheology of Solid Earth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1989, Deformation mechanisms: recognition from natural tectonites. Journal of Structural Geology 11: 127–146.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1992, Dislocation creep regimes in quartz aggregates. Journal of Structural Geology 14: 145–159.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1987, Flow properties of continental lithosphere. Tectonophysics 136: 27−63.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1982, Microfabric studies as indicators of deformation mechanisms and flow laws operative in mountain building. In (Ed.), Mountain Building Processes. London: Academic Press, pp. 95–110.Google Scholar
, 2007, Theories and applicability of grain size piezometers: the role of dynamic recrystallization mechanisms. Journal of Structural Geology 30: 899–917.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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