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This book is a systematic guide to the recognition and interpretation of deformation microstructures and mechanisms in minerals and rocks at the scale of a thin section. Diagnostic features of microstructures and mechanisms are emphasized, and the subject is extensively illustrated with high-quality color and black and white photomicrographs, and many clear diagrams. After introducing three main classes of deformation microstructures and mechanisms, low- to high-grade deformation is presented in a logical sequence in Chapters 2 to 5. Magmatic/submagmatic deformation, shear sense indicators, and shock microstructures and metamorphism are described in Chapters 6 to 8, which are innovative chapters in a structural geology textbook. The final chapter shows how deformation microstructures and mechanisms can be used quantitatively to understand the behavior of the earth. Recent experimental research on failure criteria, frictional sliding laws, and flow laws is summarized in tables, and palaeopiezometry is discussed. Audience: This book is essential to all practising structural and tectonic geologists who use thin sections, and is an invaluable research tool for advanced undergraduates, postgraduates, lecturers and researchers in structural geology and tectonics.

Deformations (Mechanics). --- Microstructure. --- Petrofabric analysis. --- Rock deformation. --- Geology --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Petrology --- Deformations (Mechanics) --- 551.242 --- 551.242 Tectonic movements, fluctuations etc. Crust movements. Tectonic structures and their elements --- Tectonic movements, fluctuations etc. Crust movements. Tectonic structures and their elements --- Earth sciences. --- Structural geology. --- Mineral resources. --- Mineralogy. --- Earth Sciences. --- Structural Geology. --- Mineral Resources. --- Microstructure --- Petrofabric analysis --- Rock deformation --- Deformation, Rock --- Geology, Structural --- Fabric analysis (Petrology) --- Microtectonics --- Petrofabrics --- Petrology, Structural --- Petrotectonics --- Structural petrology --- Materials --- Matter --- Morphology --- Micromechanics --- Stereology --- Elastic solids --- Mechanics --- Rheology --- Strains and stresses --- Structural failures --- Constitution --- Geology, Structural. --- Geotectonics --- Structural geology --- Tectonics (Geology) --- Physical geology --- Deposits, Mineral --- Mineral deposits --- Mineral resources --- Mines and mining --- Mining --- Natural resources --- Geology, Economic --- Minerals --- Crystallography

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