Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics (Geological Society Special Publication 54)

Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics......Page 1
Front matter......Page 2
Dedication......Page 3
ISBN 0-903317-58-3......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 10
Foreword......Page 12
Referees......Page 16
Control of fluids on deformation of rocks......Page 18
Conditions for fault-valve behaviour......Page 32
Textures, deformation mechanisms, and the role of fluids in the
cataclastic deformation of granitic rocks......Page 46
Fracture evolution in the upper ocean crust: evidence from DSDP
hole 504B......Page 58
The calculation of bulk rheologies of structured materials and its
application to brittle failure in shear......Page 68
Damage development during rupture of heterogeneous brittle
materials: a numerical study......Page 74
Velocity-dependent friction in a large direct shear experiment on
gabbro......Page 80
The evolution of cataclastic fault rocks from a pre-existing mylonite......Page 88
Influence of fractal flaw distributions on rock deformation in the
brittle field......Page 98
Brittle deformation and graphitic cataclasites in the pilot research
well KTB-VB (Oberpfalz, FRG)......Page 114
Brecciation and fracturing within neotectonic normal fault
zones in the Aegean region......Page 122
Mechanical compaction and the brittle-ductile
transition in porous sandstones......Page 128
Shear bands in a plastic layer at yield under combined shortening
and shear: a model for the fault array in a duplex......Page 140
The failure mechanism for deep-focus
earthquakes......Page 150
Instability, softening and localization of deformation......Page 160
Reaction-enhanced formation of eclogite-facies shear zones in
granulite-facies anorthosites......Page 184
The role of second phase in localizing deformation......Page 192
Mechanical controls on dilatant shear zones......Page 200
Propagation and localization of stylolites in limestones......Page 210
Deformation of polycrystalline salt in compression and in shear at
250-350°C......Page 218
Experimental determination of constitutive parameters governing
creep of rocksalt by pressure solution......Page 232
Phenomenological superplasticity in rocks......Page 246
Ductile deformation mechanisms in micritic limestones naturally
deformed at low temperatures (150-350°C)......Page 258
Experimental study of grain-size sensitive flow of synthetic, hotpressed
calcite rocks......Page 276
High-temperature deformation of calcite single crystals by r+ and f+ slip......Page 302
Quartzite rheology under geological conditions......Page 316
Estimates of the rates of microstructural changes in mylonites......Page 326
Microstructure in hornblende of a mylonitic amphibolite......Page 338
Albite deformation within a basal ophiolite shear zone......Page 344
Crystallographic fabrics: a selective review of their applications to
research in structural geology......Page 352
A simulation of the temperature dependence of quartz fabrics......Page 370
High temperature deformation of octachloropropane: dynamic grain
growth and lattice reorientation......Page 380
The SEM/ECP technique applied on twinned quartz crystals......Page 386
Practical application of entropy optimization in quantitative texture
analysis......Page 392
Experimental and observational constraints on the mechanical
behaviour in the toes of accretionary prisms......Page 400
The undrained shear behaviour of fine-grained sediments......Page 416
Deformation in an accretionary melange, Alexander Island,
Antarctica......Page 422
Vein structure and the role of pore fluids in early wet-sediment
deformation, Late Miocene volcaniclastic rocks, Miura Group, SE
Japan......Page 434
Centrifuge modelling of thrust faulting: strain partitioning and
sequence of thrusting in duplex structures......Page 448
Deformation mechanics in analogue models of extensional fault
systems......Page 462
Slickenside lineations due to ductile processes......Page 472
Transition between seismic and aseismic deformation in the
upper crust......Page 478
Vein distribution in a thrust zone: a case history from the Northern
Apennines, Italy......Page 492
Extensional veins and shear joint development in a thrust-fold zone
(Northern Apennines, Italy)......Page 500
Convergence-related 'dynamic spreading' in a mid-crustal ductile
thrust zone: a possible orogenic wedge model......Page 508
Structural implications of compactional strain caused by fault block
rotation: evidence from two-dimensional numerical analogues......Page 518
Alpine deformation on Naxos (Greece)......Page 526
Index......Page 540
Back cover......Page 554