Table of Contents

One: Fractures, Faults and Nappes.- 1 Hydraulic fractures and their implications regarding the state of stress in a sedimentary sequence during burial.- 2 Geometry and development of normal faults.- 3 Normal faulting and exhumation of metamorphic rocks in mountain belts.- 4 Evolution of salients in a fold-and-thrust belt: the effects of sedimentary basin geometry, strain distribution and critical taper.- 5 Plunging fault propagation folds: a case study from the Bhutan Himalayas.- 6 Thermal variations along the Moine thrust zone from illite crystallinity.- 7 Overthrust shear in mountain building.- 8 Imbricate thrust spacing: experimental and theoretical analyses.- Two: Ductile Shear Zones.- 9 Practical analysis of general shear zones using the porphyroclast hyperbolic distribution method: an example from the Scandinavian Caledonides.- 10 Shear zones in foliated rocks: geometry and kinematics.- 11 Development of compressional and extensional structures during progressive ductile shearing, Main Central Thrust Zone, Lesser Himachal Himalaya.- 12 Deformed lineation in ductile shear zones: a case study from the Proterozoic fold belt of Singhbhum, eastern India.- 13 Construction and prospective use of displacement-difference vectors (DDV) in vertical sections across shear belts: outline of a new method.- Three: Fabric.- 14 Crystal rotation and growth during grain flow in a deforming crystal mush.- 15 Strain and crystallographic fabric pattern in a folded calcite vein: the dependence on initial fabric.- 16 Volume loss and slaty cleavage development.- 17 Contrasting fabrics in deformed dykes and host rocks: natural examples and a simplified model.- Four: Folds and Superposed Folds.- 18 A fold classification scheme based on a polar plot of inverse layer thickness.- 19 Modelling deformation partitioning in folds.- 20 Simple shear modification of chevron folds: implications for facing interpretation, strain analysis and deformation history.- 21 Sense of fold asymmetry in single-phase and superposed folding.- 22 Interpretation of regional fold interference structures in SE Norway based on a comparison with model experiments.- 23 Continuous and discontinuous events in orogenic deformation.- Five: Basement Structures.- 24 The geometry of a deformed unconformity in the Caledonides of NW Scotland.- 25 Tectonic evolution of deep crustal structures in the mid-Proterozoic Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia.- 26 Cryptic structural trends in basement revealed by Patterson diagrams: examples from the Scottish and Irish Caledonian orogen.