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The origin of kink bands near Tintagel, North Cornwall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

D. M. Hobson
D. M. Hobson
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Geotechnics Division, Ove Arup and Partners, 13 Fitzroy Street, London W.1
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Summary

Near Tintagel, southerly verging kink bands cut flat-lying Upper Palaeozoic Plates and schists. The bands are about 2 cm wide and most of them terminate by a Decrease of amplitude but not wavelength. The length of the kinked limb and the frequency of the bands were probably determined by lithology when the deformation began, The bands may have formed under a N-S directed maximum principal stress which was Slightly oblique to the layering.

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Geological Magazine , Volume 110 , Issue 2 , March 1973 , pp. 133 - 144
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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