Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-8
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
Hydraulic fractures and their implications regarding the state of stress in a sedimentary sequence during burial....Pages 11-25
Geometry and development of normal faults....Pages 27-46
Normal faulting and exhumation of metamorphic rocks in mountain belts....Pages 47-57
Evolution of salients in a fold- and-thrust belt: the effects of sedimentary basin geometry, strain distribution and critical taper....Pages 59-90
Plunging fault propagation folds: a case study from the Bhutan Himalayas....Pages 91-110
Thermal variations along the Moine thrust zone from illite crystallinity....Pages 111-117
Overthrust shear in mountain building....Pages 119-142
Imbricate thrust spacing: experimental and theoretical analyses....Pages 143-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
Practical analysis of general shear zones using the porphyroclast hyperbolic distribution method: An Example from the Scandinavian Caledonides....Pages 169-184
Shear zones in foliated rocks: geometry and kinematics....Pages 185-201
Development of compressional and extensional structures during progressive ductile shearing, Main Central Thrust Zone, Lesser Himachal Himalaya....Pages 203-217
Deformed lineation in ductile shear zones: a case study from the Proterozoic fold belt of Singhbhum, eastern India....Pages 219-236
Construction and prospective use of displacement-difference vectors (DDVs) in vertical sections across shear belts: outline of a new method....Pages 237-242
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Crystal rotation and growth during grain flow in a deforming crystal mush....Pages 245-258
Strain and crystallographic fabric pattern in a folded calcite vein: the dependence on initial fabric....Pages 259-271
Volume loss and slaty cleavage development....Pages 273-291
Contrasting fabrics in deformed dykes and host rocks: natural examples and a simplified model....Pages 293-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
A fold classification scheme based on a polar plot of inverse layer thickness....Pages 323-339
Modelling deformation partitioning in folds....Pages 341-372
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Simple shear modification of chevron folds: implications for facing interpretation, strain analysis and deformation history....Pages 373-396
Sense of fold asymmetry in single-phase and superposed folding....Pages 397-408
Interpretation of regional fold interference structures in SE Norway based on comparison with model experiments....Pages 409-423
Continuous and discontinuous events in orogenic deformation....Pages 425-441
Front Matter....Pages 443-443
The geometry of a deformed unconformity in the Caledonides of NW Scotland....Pages 445-472
Tectonic evolution of deep crustal structures in the mid-Proterozoic Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia....Pages 473-485
Cryptic structural trends in basement revealed by Patterson diagrams: examples from the Scottish and Irish Caledonian orogen....Pages 487-495
Back Matter....Pages 497-500