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Experimental Rock Deformation—the Brittle Field
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This article is published in Mineralogical Magazine.The article was published on 1979-06-01. It has received 572 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Deformation (meteorology) & Brittleness.read more
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Nature and composition of the continental crust: A lower crustal perspective
TL;DR: In this article, a three-layer crust consisting of upper, middle, and lower crust is divided into type sections associated with different tectonic provinces, in which P wave velocities increase progressively with depth and there is a large variation in average P wave velocity of the lower crust between different type sections.
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Mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges
TL;DR: In this article, a simple analytical theory that predicts the critical tapers of subaerial and submarine Coulomb wedges is developed and tested quantitatively in three ways: First, laboratory model experiments with dry sand match the theory.
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Limits on lithospheric stress imposed by laboratory experiments
W. F. Brace,David L. Kohlstedt +1 more
TL;DR: Byerlee's law, converted to maximum or minimum stress, is a good upper or lower bound to observed in situ stresses to 5 km, for pore pressure hydrostatic or subhydrostatic as discussed by the authors.
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The origin of metamorphic core complexes and detachment faults formed during Tertiary continental extension in the northern Colorado River region, U.S.A.
TL;DR: The detachment terranes are relatively young features, formed late in the geological evolution of these bodies, and are only the last in a succession of low-angle normal faults that sliced through the upper crust at the upward terminations of major, shallow-dipping, ductile shear zones in the Cordilleran orogen as mentioned in this paper.
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A review of melt migration processes in the adiabatically upwelling mantle beneath oceanic spreading ridges
TL;DR: In this article, physical and chemical constraints on the mechanisms of melt extraction from the mantle beneath midocean ridges are reviewed, and compositional constraints from MORB and abyssal peridotite are summarized.