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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3 - Strain in rocks
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. 55 - 68Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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, 1990, Determination of the strain ellipsoid from sectional data. Journal of Structural Geology 12: 131–137.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1988. Normalized center-to-center strain analysis of packed aggregates. Journal of Structural Geology 10: 201–209.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 2001, Strain in ductile shear zones in the Caledonides of northern Sweden: a three-dimensional puzzle. Journal of Structural Geology 23: 1549–1565.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and , 1987, Strain distribution in a fold in the West Norwegian Caledonides. Journal of Structural Geology 9: 915–924.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, 1968, Pebble deformation and thrusting in the Bygdin area (Southern Norway). Tectonophysics 5: 315–339.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
and 2004, Evidence for non-plane strain flattening along the Moine thrust, Loch Srath nan Aisinnin, North-West Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology 26, 1755–1772.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
, and , 1999, Deformed graptolites, finite strain and volume loss during cleavage formation in rocks of the taconic slate belt, New York and Vermont, U.S.A. Journal of Structural Geology 20: 1769–1782.CrossRefGoogle Scholar