Strain in the lithosphere localizes into tabular zones known as shear zones that grow from
small outcrop-size individual zones to large composite structures. Nucleation is related to …

Continental transform faults are dominantly highly localized strike-slip shear zones
hundreds of kilometers long that accumulate tens to hundreds of kilometers of displacement …

The thermal damage evolution of rock closely relates to many important scientific and
engineering problems, such as the mechanisms of earthquake and the effective extraction of …

Shear zones channelize fluid flow in Earth's crust. However, little is known about deep
crustal fluid migration and how fluids are channelized and distributed in a deforming lower …

Mid-crustal deformation is classically characterized by the transition from ductile to brittle
deformation defining the frictional-to-viscous transition (FVT). Here we investigate an …

We conducted general shear experiments on synthetic mixtures of quartz and muscovite
aggregates at 800° C and 1.5 GPa with 0.1 wt.% H 2 O added in the Griggs apparatus to …

Ductile shear zones commonly contain distinctive bands of high strain rock characterized by
intimately mixed fine-grained two-phase or polyphase material. These ultramylonite bands …

Below the seismogenic zone, faults are expressed as zones of distributed ductile strain in
which minerals deform chiefly by crystal plastic and diffusional processes. We present a …

Exhumed fossil subduction zones are archives of the deformation conditions and
mechanisms from depths not directly accessible. Microstructural analysis of samples …

This paper presents electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), trace element and U–Pb data of
apatite grains from a granitic mylonite from the Taxaquara Shear Zone (SE Brazil). The …