Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales [Hardcover]

Structural geology has developed at a very rapid pace in recent years. Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-Scales, covering a wide spectrum of current research in structural geology from the grain scale to the scale of orogenic belts and from the brittle to the ductile field, provides an overview of newly emerging concepts in a single volume. The book covers a wide range of advances in such broad fields as hydraulic factures, normal faults, overthrusts, ductile shear zones, rock fabrics, folds, superposed folds and basement structures.Structural geology has developed at a very rapid pace in recent years. Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-Scales, covering a wide spectrum of current research in structural geology from the grain scale to the scale of orogenic belts and from the brittle to the ductile field, provides an overview of newly emerging concepts in a single volume. The book covers a wide range of advances in such broad fields as hydraulic factures, normal faults, overthrusts, ductile shear zones, rock fabrics, folds, superposed folds and basement structures.Part One: Fractures, faults, nappes. Hydraulic fractures and their implications regarding the state of stress in a sedimentary sequence during burial. Geometry and development of normal faults. Normal faulting and exhumation of metamorphic rocks in mountain belts. Evolution of salients in a fold-and-thrust belt: the effects of sedimentary basin geometry. Plunging fault propagation folds: a case study from the Bhutan Himalayas. Thermal variations along Moine thrust zone from illite crystallinity. Overthrust shear in mountain building. Imbricate thrust spacing: experimental and theoretical analysis. Part Two: Ductile shear zones. Practical analysis of general shear zones using the porphyroclast hyperbolic distribution method: an example from the Scandinavian Caledonides. Shear zones in foliatl#-