A large number of polycrystalline materials, both manmade and natural, display preferred
orientation of crystallites. Such alignment has a profound effect on anisotropy of physical …

Crustal deformation is inherently complex because the crust is inhomogeneous and
anisotropic on a wide variety of scales. Advances in our understanding have come from a …

Microtectonics deals with the interpretation of microstructures, small-scale deformation
structures in rocks that yield abundant information on the history and type of deformation and …

Near the eastern end of the Tonale fault zone, a segment of the Periadriatic fault system in
the Italian Alps, the Adamello intrusion produced a syn-kinematic contact aureole. A …

Quartz veins in the Eastern Tonale mylonite zone (Italian Alps) were deformed in strike-slip
shear. Due to the synkinematic emplacement of the Adamello Pluton, a temperature gradient …

Processes involved in the development of igneous and metamorphic rocks involve some
combination of crystal growth, solution, movement and deformation, which is expressed as …

In order to determine a recrystallized grain size piezometer for quartz, we deformed Black
Hills quartzite in a molten salt assembly in a Griggs apparatus at 1.5 GPa, 800 to 1100° C …

We have reanalyzed samples previously used for a quartz recrystallized grain size
paleopiezometer, using electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD). Recrystallized and relict …

Misorientation analysis quantifies microstructural features in tectonites, metamorphic and
igneous rocks, and allows hypotheses on their formation to be tested. The misorientation …

Recent advances both in experimental instrumentation and computing power have made it
possible to interrogate the distribution of internal interfaces in polycrystals and the three …