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  • 1
    ISSN: 1365-3121
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Geosciences
    Notes: Many ductile shear zones are interpreted to operate by simple shear flow but some form under other flow regimes. Lineations and foliations in such shear zones can lie obliquely to those in simple shear zones, which can lead to erroneous tectonic interpretations on the assumption of simple shear flow. This paper describes a gently dipping shear zone system from the N-central segment of the Palaeoproterozoic Nagssugtoqidian orogen of W. Greenland, which operated with a lateral constriction component. This resulted in the development of upright folds with axes parallel to the transport direction where the constriction component is weak. Where it is strong, a linear fabric and even a subvertical foliation normal to the rotation axis of bulk flow developed. This steep foliation is interpreted as the origin of the Nordre Strømfjord steep belt, previously interpreted as a crustal-scale sinistral transcurrent shear zone. Shear zones of this type may occur elsewhere and shear zone fabrics should therefore be carefully analysed before the direction of tectonic transpost can be determined
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  • 2
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    Journal of metamorphic geology 19 (2001), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1525-1314
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Geosciences
    Notes: Antitaxial non-deforming strain fringes from Lourdes, France, show complex quartz, calcite and chlorite fibre patterns that grew around pyrite in a slate during non-coaxial progressive deformation. Development of these fringes was modelled using a computer program ‘Fringe Growth 2.0’ which can simulate incremental growth of crystal fibres around core-objects of variable shape. It uses object-centre paths as input, which are obtained from fibre patterns in thin section. The numerical experiments produced fibre patterns that show complex intergrowth of displacement-controlled, face-controlled and intermediate fibres similar to those in the natural examples. The direction of displacement-controlled growth is only dependent on the relative movement between core-object and fringe, so that core-object rotation with respect to the fringe influences the fibre patterns and produces characteristic asymmetric fibre curvature. Object-centre paths should be used for kinematic analysis of strain fringes instead of single fibres since these paths represent the fringe as a whole. The length along the path can be interpreted in terms of finite strain and path curvature in terms of rigid body rotation of fringes with respect to an external reference frame.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 1525-1314
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Geosciences
    Notes: Abstract P–T conditions, mineral isograds, the relation of the latter to foliation planes and kinematic indicators are used to elucidate the tectonic nature and evolution of a shear zone in an orogen exhumed from mid-crustal depths in western Turkey. Furthermore, we discuss whether simple monometamorphic fabrics of rock units from different nappes result from one single orogeny or are related to different orogenies. Metasedimentary rocks from the Çine and Selimiye nappes at the southern rim of the Anatolide belt of western Turkey record different metamorphic evolutions. The Eocene Selimiye shear zone separates both nappes. Metasedimentary rocks from the Çine nappe underneath the Selimiye shear zone record maximum P–T conditions of about 7 kbar and 〉550 °C. Metasedimentary rocks from the overlying Selimiye nappe have maximum P–T conditions of 4 kbar and c. 525 °C near the base of the nappe. Kinematic indicators in both nappes are related to movement on the Selimiye shear zone and consistently show a top-S shear sense. Metamorphic grade in the Selimiye nappe decreases structurally upwards as indicated by mineral isograds defining the garnet-chlorite zone at the base, the chloritoid-biotite zone and the biotite-chlorite zone at the top of the nappe. The mineral isograds in the Selimiye nappe run parallel to the regional SR foliation, parallel the Selimiye shear zone and indicate that the Selimiye shear zone formed during this prograde greenschist to lower amphibolite facies metamorphic event but remained active after the peak of metamorphism. 40Ar/39Ar mica ages and the tectonometamorphic relationship with the Eocene Cyclades–Menderes thrust, which occurs above the Selimiye nappe in the study area, suggests an Eocene age of metamorphism in the Selimiye nappe.Metasedimentary rocks of the Çine nappe 20–30 km north of the Selimiye shear zone record maximum P–T conditions of 8–11 kbar and 600–650  °C. An age of about 550 Ma is indicated for amphibolite facies metamorphism and associated top-N shear in the orthogneiss of the Çine nappe. Our study shows that simple monophase tectonometamorphic fabrics do not always indicate a simple orogenic development of a nappe stack. Preservation in some areas and complete overprinting of those fabrics in other areas apparently occur very heterogeneously.
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  • 4
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    Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd
    Journal of metamorphic geology 10 (1992), S. 0 
    ISSN: 1525-1314
    Source: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005
    Topics: Geosciences
    Notes: In a number of recent papers, the theory has been postulated that porphyroblasts as a rule do not rotate with respect to geographical coordinates, and can be used to determine the original orientation of older foliations. Complex inclusion patterns in spiral garnets have even been used to advocate a new model of orogenesis, involving several alternating phases of horizontal shortening and extension. Critical assessment of the assumptions and data used to support the theory of irrotational porphyroblasts reveals numerous flaws. Millipede structures, used as proof for flow partitioning, can also form by other flow geometries. Evidence quoted to support irrotational behaviour of porphyroblasts is unsound. Porphyroblasts do occur in sets with a preferred orientation of the internal foliation trace, but these cannot be shown to represent original orientations. Microstructures which resemble truncation planes in spiral garnets are used as evidence that these structures developed by several phases of deformation and as proof for periodic extension and horizontal shortening in orogenesis. They can, however, also be explained by intermittent growth of a rotating porphyroblast during a single phase of deformation. Finally, porphyroblast sets in which orientation is a function of aspect ratio indicate that porphyroblast rotation with respect to kinematic axes does occur in at least some situations.
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  • 5
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    Geologische Rundschau 86 (1997), S. 627-636 
    ISSN: 0016-7835
    Keywords: Key words Orobic Alps ; Orobic thrust ; Inversion tectonics ; Fault reactivation ; Extensional basin ; Alpine orogeny
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences
    Notes: Abstract  A series of regional deformation phases is described for the metamorphic basement and the Permian cover in an area in the central Orobic Alps, northern Italy. In the basement deformation under low-grade amphibolite metamorphic conditions is followed by a second phase during retrograde greenschist conditions. These two phases predate the deposition of the Permian cover and are of probable Variscan age. An extensional basin formed on the eroded basement during the Late Carboniferous, filled with fan conglomerates and sandstones, and rhyolitic volcanic rocks. Well-preserved brittle extensional faults bound these basins. Further extension deformed basement and cover before the onset of Alpine compressional tectonics. Cover and basement were deformed together during two phases of compressional deformation of post-Triassic age, the first giving rise to tectonic inversion of the older extensional faults, the second to new thrust faults, both associated with south-directed nappe emplacement and regional folding. Foliations develop in the cover only during the first phase of deformation as part of the activity on “shortening faults”. Main activity on the Orobic thrust actually postdates the first phase of thrusting and foliation development in the cover.
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  • 6
    ISSN: 0016-7835
    Keywords: Key words Pan-African orogeny ; U ; Pb dating ; Ductile deformation ; Shear sense indicators ; Menderes massif ; Turkey ; Thrusting
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences
    Notes: Abstract The Menderes massif consists of a Precambrian Core Series that preserves evidence for a polymetamorphic history and a Paleozoic/Mesozoic Cover Series that experienced only the Alpine tectonometamorphic evolution. Structural, petrographic, and geochronologic investigations in the central Menderes massif demonstrate that (a) part of the metamorphic and structural evolution of the Precambrian basement is older than the undeformed 551±1.4-Ma-old Birgi metagranite, and (b) inferred Alpine fabrics overprinting the Cover Series largely have the same attitudes as the old structures in the much older Core Series. The inferred Alpine fabrics include both contractional and extensional structures. Contraction under greenschist to amphibolite facies conditions resulted in the imbrication of the Core and Cover Series and generated an inverted metamorphic sequence by north-directed thrusting. During Alpine extension, most of the south-dipping thrust faults were reactivated as extensional shear zones under decreasing greenschist facies conditions.
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  • 7
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    International journal of earth sciences 77 (1988), S. 309-318 
    ISSN: 1437-3262
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Geosciences
    Description / Table of Contents: Abstract The geometry of ductile shear zones can be used to solve problems of regional tectonics if the deformation path of material in the zones is sufficiently understood. Flow in many shear zones may have deviated from simple shear and consequently data on the final deformation state such as finite strain and volume change are insufficient for reconstruction of the deformation path, even if flow parameters were constant during progressive deformation. Additional information on the flow vorticity number is also needed and can be obtained from fabric elements such as sets of folded-boudinaged veins, rotated porphyroblasts and blocked rigid objects. Mohr circle constructions are presented as a tool to calculate deformation parameters from fabric data, to represent the deformation path graphically and to reconstruct flow parameters from the shape of this path. If the vorticity number or the volume change rate changed during progressive deformation, the deformation path can be partly reconstructed using sets of fabric elements which register mean and final values of these parameters.
    Abstract: Résumé La géométrie des shear zones ductiles peut être utilisée pour résoudre des problèmes de tectonique régionale, pour autant que l'histoire de la déformation des matériaux de ces zones soit suffisamment bien comprise. Il peut arriver, dans beaucoup de shear zones, que le processus ductile se soit écarté du modèle du glissement simple et qu'en conséquence, les caractères finals de la déformation, tels que l'ellipsoïde de la déformation finie, ou le changement de volume, s'avèrent insuffisants pour pouvoir reconstruire l'histoire de la déformation et ce, même si les paramètres de fluage sont restés constants au cours du processus. Il est alors nécessaire de disposer d'informations supplémentaires quant à la vorticité; ces informations peuvent être fournies par certains éléments structuraux tels que des groupes de veines plissées-boudinées, des porphyroblastes qui ont toruné et des objets rigides bloqués. Au moyen de constructions appliquées au cercle de Mohr, il est possible de calculer les paramètres de la déformation à partir des données structurales, de représenter graphiquement l'histoire de la déformation et de retrouver les paramètres de fluage à partir de la forme de cette représentation. Si, au cours de la déformation progressive, la vorticité ou le taux de variation de volume se modifient, l'histoire de la déformation peut être reconstituée partiellement par l'utilisation de groupes d'éléments structuraux qui enregistrent les valeurs moyenne et finale de ces paramètres.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Die Geometrie duktiler Scherzonen kann dazu verwendet werden, regionaltektonische Probleme zu lösen, sofern der im Material abgebildete Deformationsweg dieser Zonen genügend verstanden wird. Der Flow in vielen Scherzonen mag sich aus einfacher Scherung ableiten lassen, daher genügen Daten über den letzten Deformationszustand wie z. B. der finite Strain und die Volumenänderung nicht für die Rekonstruktion des Deformationsweges, auch nicht bei konstanten Fließparametern während der fortschreitenden Deformation. Zusätzliche Daten über die Verwirbelungszahl (Rotationszahl) sind nötig. Sie lassen sich ableiten aus verschiedenartigen Gefügeelementen wie Gruppen gefaltetboundinierter Gänge, rotierten Porphyroblasten und »verklemmten«, starren Objekten. Vorgestellt werden anhand von Gefügedaten Konstruktionen am Mohr'schen Spannungskreis zur Bestimmung der Deformationsparameter, um damit den Deformationsweg graphisch darzustellen und daraus die Fließparameter abzuleiten. Änderungen in der Rotationszahl (Vorticity) oder der Geschwindigkeit in der Volumenänderung während progressiver Deformation erlauben den Deformationsweg zumindest teilweise zu rekonstruieren. Verwendung finden hierbei diejenigen Gefügeelemente, die sowohl die durchschnittliche Deformation als auch die letzten Deformationsereignisse registriert haben.
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  • 8
    Publication Date: 2016-10-08
    Description: Intersecting pairs of simultaneously active faults with opposing slip sense present geometrical and kinematic problems. Such faults rarely offset each other but usually merge into a single fault, even when they have displacements of many kilometers. The space problems involved are solved by lengthening the merged fault (zippering up the conjugate faults) or splitting it (unzippering). This process can operate in thrust, normal, and strike-slip fault settings. Examples of conjugate pairs of large-scale strike-slip faults that may have zippered up include the Garlock and San Andreas faults in California (USA), the North and East Anatolian faults (Turkey), the Karakoram and Altyn Tagh faults (Tibet), and the Tonale and Giudicarie faults (southern Alps). Intersecting conjugate ductile shear zones behave in the same way on outcrop and micro-scales. Zippering may produce complex and significant patterns of strain and rotation in the surrounding rocks, depending on the angle between the faults and the relative strength of the blocks they bound. A zippered fault will have a slip rate equal to the vector sum of the slip rates on the merging faults, unless that displacement is transferred into or out of the system by distributed strain in the surrounding rocks.
    Print ISSN: 0091-7613
    Electronic ISSN: 1943-2682
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  • 9
    Publication Date: 2014-09-26
    Description: Field evidence from the Baladiyah complex in the northern part of the Arabian–Nubian Shield of Saudi Arabia indicates several erosional unconformities separating different high- and medium-grade metasedimentary sequences. This suggests that the collision between East and West Gondwana involved several cycles of exhumation and burial, providing a unique opportunity to study the multiple stages of this orogeny. A mineral equilibria approach and thermodynamic modeling are used to place constraints on the formation conditions of each of these cycles. It is shown that the complex is characterized by three regional metamorphic events followed by a fourth metamorphic event related to shear heating owing to the thrusting of post-tectonic granites. During the first metamorphic event peak metamorphism was at around 705–715°C and 5·2–5·6 kbar followed by subsequent decompression to the Earth’s surface. Subsequently deposited sediments attained 635–670°C and 4·2–5 kbar during a second metamorphic event, followed by exhumation, erosion and deposition of molasse sediments. The rocks were then buried for a third time and metamorphosed to greenschist-facies metamorphic conditions (330 ± 30°C and 3·6–4·6 kbar) under the load of the molasse sediments. Finally, post-tectonic granites were intruded and thrust during the final Pan-African exhumation, causing a fourth metamorphic event (700 ± 25°C). Correlation of this metamorphic evolution with the deformation history shows that the first and the second metamorphic events occurred in a compressional regime (D 1 and D 2 ), interpreted to be related to the first (750 Ma) and the second (676 Ma) collision stages between East and West Gondwana, respectively. The third deformation phase began with a compressional regime causing the third metamorphic event, and then turned into an oblique transpressive regime, which led to escape tectonics and the development of the large-scale Najd strike-slip shear zone system.
    Print ISSN: 0022-3530
    Electronic ISSN: 1460-2415
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    Publication Date: 2016-10-14
    Description: Intersecting pairs of simultaneously active faults with opposing slip sense present geometrical and kinematic problems. Such faults rarely offset each other but usually merge into a single fault, even when they have displacements of many kilometers. The space problems involved are solved by lengthening the merged fault (zippering up the conjugate faults) or splitting it (unzippering). This process can operate in thrust, normal, and strike-slip fault settings. Examples of conjugate pairs of large-scale strike-slip faults that may have zippered up include the Garlock and San Andreas faults in California (USA), the North and East Anatolian faults (Turkey), the Karakoram and Altyn Tagh faults (Tibet), and the Tonale and Giudicarie faults (southern Alps). Intersecting conjugate ductile shear zones behave in the same way on outcrop and micro-scales. Zippering may produce complex and significant patterns of strain and rotation in the surrounding rocks, depending on the angle between the faults and the relative strength of the blocks they bound. A zippered fault will have a slip rate equal to the vector sum of the slip rates on the merging faults, unless that displacement is transferred into or out of the system by distributed strain in the surrounding rocks.
    Print ISSN: 0091-7613
    Electronic ISSN: 1943-2682
    Topics: Geosciences
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