Deformation microstructures and mechanisms in minerals and rocks /

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Blenkinsop, Tom G.
Imprint:Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2000.
Description:xii, 150 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.
Language:English
Subject:
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4402068
Hidden Bibliographic Details
ISBN:041273480X (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-125) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction and Terminology
  • 2. Cataclasis
  • Fundamental cataclastic deformation mechanisms
  • Microcracks
  • Microfaults
  • Deformations bands
  • Distributed cataclasis and cataclastic flow
  • Gouge zone microstructures
  • Microfracture surface features
  • Crystallographic fabrics
  • Pre-lithification deformation microstructures and mechanisms
  • Pseudotachylites and frictional melting
  • 3. Diffusive Mass Transfer by Solution
  • Fundamental deformation mechanisms of diffusive mass transfer by solution
  • Grain surface solution textures
  • Indenting, truncating and interpenetrating grain contacts
  • Strain caps
  • Microstylolites
  • Diffusive mass transfer and cleavage
  • Grain surface deposition textures
  • Overgrowths, porosity reduction, pressure shadows and fringes, and mica beards
  • Grain shape fabrics
  • Fluid inclusion planes
  • Microveins
  • 4. Intracrystalline Plasticity
  • Fundamental mechanisms of intracrystalline plasticity
  • Deformation twins
  • Undulatory extinction
  • Intracrystalline deformation bands, kink bands and subgrains: Recovery
  • Deformation lamellae
  • Grain shape fabrics and ribbon grains
  • New grains, core and mantle structure: Dynamic recrystallization
  • Crystallographic fabrics
  • 5. Diffusive Mass Transfer and Phase Transformations in the Solid State
  • Fundamental deformation mechanisms of solid state diffusive mass transfer and phase transformations
  • Grain shape fabrics and ribbon grains
  • Foam texture, static and secondary recrystallization
  • Decussate texture
  • Porphyroblasts and inclusion trails
  • Reaction rims, relict minerals, coronas and symplectites
  • Chemical zoning
  • Solid state phase transformation microstructures
  • Superplasticity
  • 6. Magmatic and Sub-magmatic Deformation
  • Fundamental deformation mechanisms and microstructures in rocks containing melt
  • Mesoscopic evidence for magmatic and sub-magmatic flow
  • Magmatic microstructures
  • Sub-magmatic microstructures
  • Other microstructures
  • Non-magmatic deformation
  • 7. Microstructural Shear Sense Criteria
  • Curved foliation
  • Oblique foliations and shape preferred orientations
  • Porphyroclast systems
  • S-, C- and C'-fabrics
  • Pressure shadows and fringes
  • Mica fish
  • Porphyroblast internal foliations
  • Crystallographic fabrics
  • Asymmetric microboudins
  • Asymmetric microfolds and rolling structures
  • Shear sense criteria in rocks containing melt
  • Shear sense criteria for faults
  • 8. Shock-induced microstructures and shock metamorphism
  • Shock mechanisms
  • Microfractures
  • Planar Deformation Features (PDFs)
  • Mosaicism
  • Diaplectic glass
  • High pressure polymorphs of quartz - Coesite and stishovite
  • Lechatelierite
  • Tectites, microtectites and spherules
  • Shock barometry and thermometry
  • Calibration of shock pressures from microstructures
  • Diagnostic impact microstructures
  • 9. From Microstructures to Mountains: Deformation Microstructures, Mechanisms and Tetonics
  • Failure criteria
  • Pore fluid pressure and faulting
  • Fracture mechanics and failure criteria
  • Frictional sliding laws
  • Flow laws
  • Polymineralic deformation
  • Deformation mechanism maps
  • Lithospheric strength envelopes
  • Palaeopiezometry
  • Geothermobarometry.