Shear zones–A review

H Fossen, GCG Cavalcante - Earth-Science Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Strain in the lithosphere localizes into tabular zones known as shear zones that grow from
small outcrop-size individual zones to large composite structures. Nucleation is related to …

Geochronology of shear zones–A review

S Oriolo, K Wemmer, P Oyhantçabal, H Fossen… - Earth-Science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Shear zones play a major role in the deformation of the crust at a variety of scales, as
expressions of strain localization during orogeny and rifting, and also as reactivated …

Role of chemical processes on shear zone formation: an example from the Grimsel metagranodiorite (Aar massif, Central Alps)

P Goncalves, E Oliot, D Marquer… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Alpine deformation in the Grimsel granodiorite (Aar massif, Central Alps) at greenschist
facies conditions (6.5±1 kbar for 450° C±25° C) is characterized by the development of a …

Deformation and temperature variation along thrust-sense shear zones in the hinterland-foreland transition zone of collisional settings: A case study from the Barbagia …

A Petroccia, R Carosi, C Montomoli, S Iaccarino… - Journal of Structural …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract In the Internal Zone of a continental collisional orogen, first-order contractional
shear zones accommodate crustal shortening. Structural investigations at different scales …

A mechanism of fatigue in salt under discontinuous cycle loading

D Jiang, J Fan, J Chen, L Li, Y Cui - … Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining …, 2016 - Elsevier
The fatigue properties and their relationship with material deformation, damage and failure
is an important topic in geotechnical engineering field, including rock cutting, drilling and …

Volumetric and shear strain localization throughout triaxial compression experiments on rocks

J McBeck, Y Ben-Zion, F Renard - Tectonophysics, 2022 - Elsevier
Deformation localization is a widely observed, but rarely quantified process in the crust.
Recent observations suggest that the localization of seismicity and fracture networks can …

“In-plane” site-specific FIB lamella extraction from deformed magnetite and the investigation of low angle grain boundaries under TEM

MA Mamtani, O Wenzel, A Kontny, C Hilgers… - Journal of Structural …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study a modus operandi to investigate site-specific nanostructures in thin films
(lamellae) excavated “in-plane” across (sub) grain boundaries is presented. This is done by …

[HTML][HTML] Enhanced structural analysis through a hybrid analogue-digital mapping approach: Integrating field and UAV survey with microtomography to characterize …

E Fazio, G Ortolano, GI Alsop, A D'agostino… - Journal of Structural …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study focused on collecting structural data orientations of a crustal-scale shear zone
(Palmi Shear Zone, PSZ, southern Calabria, Italy) by integrating various analytical and field …

[HTML][HTML] On the petrology and microstructures of small-scale ductile shear zones in granitoid rocks: an overview

A Ceccato, P Goncalves, L Menegon - Journal of Structural Geology, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the pioneering works of John Ramsay in the 1970's and 1980's, the analysis of
exceptional exposures of small-scale shear zones (ie 10-3–10− 1 m thick) in granitoid rocks …

Extensional and compressional regime driven left-lateral shear in southwestern Anatolia (eastern Mediterranean): The Burdur-Fethiye Shear Zone

İ Elitez, C Yaltırak, B Aktuğ - Tectonophysics, 2016 - Elsevier
The tectonic framework of the eastern Mediterranean presented in this paper is based on an
active subduction and small underwater hills/mountains on the oceanic crust moving toward …