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 …

The thin-skin Sevier and thick-skin Laramide belts of the North American Cordillera provide
a long-term record of the interrelations between evolving styles of mountain building and …

Quantitative vorticity analyses in naturally deformed rocks are essential for studying the
kinematics of flow in shear zones and can be performed using a range of methods, which …

The Basin and Range province is a composite Cenozoic taphrogen with a present
configuration and internal geometry derived from superimposed multiple phases of …

Metamorphic core complexes are products of normal-fault displacements sufficient to
exhume rocks from below the brittle–ductile transition. These faults (detachments) may …

The Greater Himalayan Slab (GHS) is composed of a north-dip** anatectic core, bounded
above by the South Tibetan detachment system (STDS) and below by the Main Central …

Low‐angle extensional shear zones, which often characterize the brittle–ductile transition of
the continental crust, are seen here to result from strain localization. The potentially …

The origin of low‐angle normal faults (LANFs) and shear zones is subject to debate, and the
Linglong metamorphic core complex (MCC) in eastern China provides good examples of …

Kinematic analysis of ductile shear zones is an important method to interpret the dynamic
evolution of many tectonic and magmatic processes on Earth, such as orogeny, rifting, and …

Despite numerous studies on the structural evolution of metamorphic core complexes, there
is still little consensus on the set and sequence of processes that bring deep levels of the …