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Tectonic phase
About: Tectonic phase is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 719 publications have been published within this topic receiving 23629 citations.
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TL;DR: The tectonics of the Aegean region involves complex slip patterns across the boundaries of several microplates that segment the end of the Anatolian plate, which is moving in a westward direction from the Bitlis zone, an intracontinental suture zone, to consume oceanic lithosphere in the eastern Mediterranean as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The tectonics of the Aegean region involves complex slip patterns across the boundaries of several microplates that segment the end of the Anatolian plate, which is moving in a westward direction from the Bitlis zone, an intracontinental suture zone, to consume oceanic lithosphere in the eastern Mediterranean. The segmentation of the western end of the Anatolian plate into scholles with adjacent zones of grabens, strike-slip, and thrust semicontinuum tectonics results from “locking’ across the two North Anatolian transform strands where they change orientation at the western end of the Sea of Marmara. This fast lateral motion of buoyant continental slivers is a transient phase of the early stages of continental collision resulting from the irregularity of colliding margins. It is, however, a tectonic phase that leaves a fundamental signature on the convergent zone by imprinting a complex widespread series of structures that mask, and make difficult the interpretation of, earlier structures.
1,030 citations
TL;DR: The Kutch-Saurashtra, Cambay and Narmada basins are pericontinental rift basins in the western margin of the Indian craton.
836 citations
Book•
1 Jan 1973
TL;DR: Metamorphism and Metamorphic Belts (Metamorphic rocks and metamorphic belts) as discussed by the authors is a classic work on metamorphism in petrology and geology.
Abstract: My book Metamorphic Rocks and Metamorphic Belts (in Japanese) was published by Iwanami Shoten, Publishers, in Tokyo in 1965. A few years later, Mr D. Lynch-Blosse of George Allen and Unwin Ltd contacted me to explore the possibility of translating it into English. Thus, translation accompanied by rewriting of substantial parts of the book was made in subsequent years, resulting in the present book Metamorphism and Metamorphic Belts. This title was chosen to emphasize the tectonic significance of metamorphic belts. Metamorphic geology has a long history. The microscopic description and classification of metamorphic rocks began in the late nineteenth century. The theory of equilibrium mineral assemblages began in the first half of the twentieth century. Detailed mineralogical studies and the experimental determination of the pressure-temperature conditions of metamorphism began in the 1950s. The importance of metamorphic peirology in our understanding of the tectonic processes has been realized only in the past decade. This book is intended to synthesize the mineralogic, petrologic and tectonic aspects of metamorphism. Advanced treatment of the thermodynamic and structural aspects is not intended. Part I of this book treats the basic concepts of metamorphic petrology and geology. Part II deals mainly with the progressive mineral changes and their diversity in regional metamorphism. Part III deals with the tectonic aspects of regional, ocean-floor and transform-fault metamorphism in relation to the evolution of the crust and lithosphere. A short history of metamorphic geology is given in the Appendix to help readers understand the historical background of concepts and terms and to, emphasize the great contribution of the to Finno-Scandinavian school of petrology in the first half of the twentieth century.nFrom the tectonic viewpoint, regional and ocean-floor metamorphism are the most important of all categories of metamorphism. Abundant data are available for regional metamorphism. Hence, the mineralogy, metamorphic facies, facies series, and pressure-temperature and tectonic conditions of regional metamorphism are discussed in detail. Available data, though they are not abundant, of ocean-floor, transform-fault and contact metamorphism are reviewed.
705 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, a method is proposed to compute some characteristics of a possible stress tensor related to striations measured in a given faulted area, if several tectonic phases are responsible for the striations, the method separates and determines the successive stress tensors.
656 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the discontinuity in the river profiles and the other features are controlled by a major tectonic boundary between the rising High Himalayas and the Lesser Himalaysas.
633 citations
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