Microtectonics deals with the interpretation of microstructures, small-scale deformation
structures in rocks that yield abundant information on the history and type of deformation and …

Opposite shear sense (OSS) is manifested by the presence of conflicting shear sense
indicators in a portion of a rock body, a shear/fault zone or across several parallel shear/fault …

Characterising large shale thrust zone behaviour down to the diagenetic-metamorphic
boundary is both simple and complex. The task in critical taper, analogue and numerical …

Mylonites form in response to high rates of strain within deep ductile shear zones, which are
the extensions at depth of surface faults, thrusts and fault breccias, They can have many …

Clay-rich fault rocks have long been recognized to host distinctive fabric elements, and fault
rock fabric is increasingly thought to play a fundamental role in fault mechanical behaviour …

The role of phyllosilicate fabrics in fault gouge is a poorly understood component of the
mechanical and hydrologic behavior of brittle fault zones. We present 90 fabric intensity …

Survivor grains are rounded, isolated clasts in fault gouge that escaped the grain fracturing
so evident in fault breccia. Surrounded by a matrix of clay or comminuted parent rock, they …

Abstract The Guadalquivir Accretionary Complex forms a largely oblique prism at the
northern edge of the Betic‐Rif orogen, where Miocene sediments plus allochthonous …

Abstract Evaluation of microstructures in unlithified near-surface sediments provides
promising results for differentiating between earthquake rupture-related (coseismic) and …

Formation of dislocations in a geological layer at a strike-slip displacement in its basement is
studied by three-dimensional (3D) numerical modeling. It is shown that the pattern of strain …