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Stress
A layman may laugh at you when you say that a rock feels the pinch of a force imposed on it! Yes, it does feel irrespective of the amount of force....
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Arc-parallel compression in the NW Himalaya: Evidence from structural and palaeostress studies of brittle deformation from the clasts of the Upper Siwalik, Uttarakhand, India
The sub-Himalayan Upper Siwalik rocks, between the Main Boundary Thrust (MBT) to the north and the Main Frontal Thrust (MFT) to the south, are...
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Palaeostress and magma pressure measurement of granite veins in the Neoproterozoic Ambaji granulite, South Delhi terrane, Aravalli–Delhi mobile belt, NW India: Implication towards the extension-driven exhumation of the middle–lower crustal rocks
Neoproterozoic Ambaji granulite, in the South Delhi terrane (SDT) of the Aravalli–Delhi mobile belt (ADMB), is multiply deformed at different stages...
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Lower crustal earthquake associated with highly pressurized frictional melts
Earthquakes at lower crustal depths are common during continental collision. However, the coseismic weakening mechanisms required to propagate an...
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Stress tensors and quantification of fracture patterns to analyze connectivity and potential fluid flow in a mesa landform of the Northern Andes
This work applies stress tensors inversions and quantification of fracture patterns along the Mesa de Los Santos, in the Eastern Cordillera of...
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Digital Map Simulation and Paleo-Stress Analysis of Post-Accretion Structures in the South Eastern Desert (Egypt): A Case Study from Wadi Kharit Shear Zone
AbstractThe present work deals with geologic adaptation of Wadi Kharit shear zone based on field, petrographic, remote sensing and structural data....
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New insights on the tectonic evolution of the Miocene gap grabens of Sers–Siliana (Tunisian Atlas) during Neogene to Quaternary: Contribution of chronology of the regional tectonic events
The NW–SE trending grabens of Sers–Siliana, located in the Central Tunisian Atlas, show a peculiarity, compared to adjacent grabens, which comes from...
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Episodes of fissure formation in the Alps: connecting quartz fluid inclusion, fissure monazite age, and fissure orientation data
Fluid assisted Alpine fissure-vein and cleft formation starts at prograde, peak or retrograde metamorphic conditions of 450–550 °C and 0.3–0.6 GPa...
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Tectonic paleostress field and its impact on the geodynamic evolution of Central Iran, case study: the Shotori Mountain
The Shotori mountain range is located along the northern terminus of the Nayband fault on the eastern and western domains of the Tabas and Lut...
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Episodic sandstone-type uranium mineralization in Asia during the Late Mesozoic-Cenozoic
Sandstone-type uranium deposits (STUDs) are the most important global source of uranium. However, it is unclear why STUDs have a non-random...
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Itinerary 2. The Roussillon Basin
Itinerary 2 focuses on the Neogene evolution of the Roussillon extensional basin. The litho- and chronostratigraphy of its most characteristic...
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The Baelo Claudia Tsunami Archive (SW Spain)—Archaeological Deposits of High-Energy Events
Over the past decades, substantial progress has been made in tsunami research. Be that as it may, little is still known about tsunami deposits and...
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Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility of the Late Cretaceous–Eocene sediments in the southeastern Fenwei Graben and its tectono-sedimentary significance
The Fenwei Graben located in the conjoint region between the Neo-Tethys tectonic domain and the western Pacific tectonic domain is key to...
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Geophysical Characterisation of the Active Fault Geometry and Trends in Tectonic Deformation in the Shallow Stratigraphy along Active Faults, South Andaman, India
A comprehensive Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) profiling with high resolution was done and complemented with total station surveys along an active...
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Towards the Triassic Configuration of Western Paleotethys
The tectono-paleogeograhic inheritance of barely documented Paleotethyan influence on the Southern Carpathian-Balkan belt is herein reappraised to...
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Paleomagnetic constraints on Paleogene-Neogene rotation and paleo-stress in the northern Qaidam Basin
Knowing the rotation and paleo-stress history in Qaidam Basin is a fundamental parameter to quantify the mechanism of intracontinental deformation in...
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Capturing the structural and compositional variability of Opalinus Clay: constraints from multidisciplinary investigations of Mont Terri drill cores (Switzerland)
Opalinus Clay is considered a potential host rock for radioactive waste disposal. The Jurassic claystone formation is composed of several facies and...
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Variable structural styles and tectonic evolution of an ancient backstop boundary: the Pieniny Klippen Belt of the Western Carpathians
The Pieniny Klippen Belt (PKB) and adjoining zones form a narrow, but lengthy belt that separates the Cretaceous nappe stack of the Central...
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The March 2017 earthquake sequence along the E-W-trending Mcid Aïcha-Debbagh Fault, northeast Algeria
In Northeast Algeria, a sequence of 143 small earthquakes (M d ≤ 4.7) occurred near the Mcid Aïcha-Debbagh (MAD) Fault between 4 and 16 March, 2017....
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Intercontinental response to variations in the Arabia-Eurasia Plate convergence, calcite e-twin evidence of the Kuhbanan Fault system, Central Iran
Variations in the plate convergence direction have generally reflected on the kinematics of the major fault zones developed in the intercontinental...