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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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. 259 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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and , 1987, Orogen-parallel extension and oblique tectonics: the relation between stretching lineations and relative plate motions. Geology, 15: 1022–1026.2.0.CO;2>CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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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
, 1986, Parallel stretching lineations and fold axes oblique to a shear displacement direction: a model and observations. Journal of Structural Geology, 8: 647–653.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1984, The relation between regionally consistent stretching lineations and plate motions. Journal of Structural Geology: 6, 111–117.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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, 1978, Rotation of contemporary folds into the X direction during overthrust processes in Laksefjord, Finnmark. Tectonophysics, 48: 29–40.CrossRefGoogle Scholar