Deformation Microstructures in Rocks

• Main Author: Mukherjee, Soumyajit (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Springer Geochemistry/Mineralogy,
• Subjects: Earth sciences.; Structural geology.; Mineralogy.; Earth Sciences.; Structural Geology.

Study of microstructures is an indispensable component of understanding structural geology of any terrain. A number of ‘new’ microscopic structures such as ‘flanking microstructures’, trapezoid-shaped mineral grains, reversal of ductile shear sense, micro-duplexes, V-pull aparts, and new minerals nu...

Table of Contents:

• Mineral fish and ductile shear senses
• Trapezoid-shaped minerals and brittle shear senses
• Flanking microstructures and nucleations
• Intrafolial- and other folds in shear zones
• Grain migrations
• Mineral inclusions
• Pull-aparts, boudins and brittle faults.