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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11 - Folds and folding
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. 219 - 242Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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, 1986, Extracting information from folds in rocks. Journal of Geological Education 34: 237–245.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1987, The Techniques of Modern Structural Geology. 2: Folds and Fractures. London: Academic Press.Google Scholar
and , 1984, On the internal geometry of mylonite zones. Journal of Geology 92: 667–686.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1980, Development of sheath folds in shear regions. Journal of Structural Geology 2: 119–126.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1995. Northwest-verging folds and the northwestward movement of the Caledonian Jotun Nappe, Norway. Journal of Structural Geology 17: 1–16.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and , 2002, Mechanisms for folding of high-grade rocks in extensional tectonic settings. Earth-Sciences Review 59: 163–210.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1996, Folds with vergence opposite to the sense of shear. Journal of Structural Geology 18: 777–781.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1983, Progressive refolding in ductile shear zones. Journal of Structural Geology 5: 619–622.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1989, Tubular folds and sheath folds: definitions and conceptual models for their development, with examples from the Grapesvare area, northern Sweden. Journal of Structural Geology 11: 689–703.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1988, A computer model of sheath-nappes formed during crustal shear in the Western Gneiss Region, central Norwegian Caledonides. Journal of Structural Geology 10: 735–745.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1961, Theory of folding of stratified viscoelastic media and its implications in tectonics and orogenesis. Geological Society of America Bulletin 72: 1595–1620.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1993, Information from fold shapes. Journal of Structural Geology 15: 253–264.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1968, Wavelengths of single layer folds: a comparison between theory and observation. American Journal of Science 266: 167–179.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1968, Simplified fourier analysis of fold shapes. Tectonophysics 6: 343–350.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and , 2000, On tangential longitudinal strain folding. Tectonophysics 319: 53–68.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and , 1996, Flexural flow folding: does it occur in nature?Geology 24: 203–206.2.3.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1974, Development of chevron folds. Geological Society of America Bulletin 85: 1741–1754.2.0.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1989, The flexural-slip mechanism. Journal of Structural Geology 11: 635–655.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1987, Strain distribution in a fold in the West Norwegian Caledonides. Journal of Structural Geology 9: 915–924.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1984, Strain analysis and fold shape in a limestone layer and implications for layer rheology. Tectonophysics 106: 321–347.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1963, Strain distribution and geometry of folds. Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the University of Uppsala 42: 1–20.Google Scholar
and , 1972, A comparison of natural and experimental strain patterns around fold hinge zones. Tectonophysics 14: 105–120.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1994, Extension-parallel folding in the Scandinavian Caledonides: implications for late-orogenic processes. Tectonophysics 238: 31–54.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, , , and , 1995, Large-magnitude continental extension: an example from the central Mojave metamorphic core complex. Geological Society of America Bulletin 107: 1468–1483.2.3.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar