Fault anatomy

Fault anatomy Faults drawn on seismic or geologic sections are usually portrayed as single lines of even thickness. In detail, however, faul...

Deformation bands and fractures in porous rocks

Deformation bands Rocks respond to stress in the brittle regime by forming extension fractures and shear fractures (slip surfaces). Such fra...

Why perform strain analysis?

Why perform strain analysis? Why do we perform strain analysis?. It can be important to retrieve information about strain from deformed rock...

Siccar Point - the world's most important geological site and the birthplace of modern geology

Siccar Point   is world-famous as the most important  unconformity  described by  J ames Hutton  (1726-1797) in support of his world-changin...

What is deformation?

The term deformation is, like several other structural geology terms, used in different ways by different people and under different circum...