Abstract
The genetic side of structural geology is concerned with working out the mechanical history of rock bodies from observable features of their structure. Two aspects of the mechanical history can be studied: the force history and the movement history. Both of these are important, but there has generally been more success in working out movement history than force history. What follows in this chapter is concerned mainly with movement history, but the same concepts apply to force history.
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The association of macroscopic fractures in rocks with precursor microfractures, from which the former evolve, is discussed by Hobbs et al. (1976, §7.3.11) and references cited therein, and by Price (1966, pp. 29–38).
Durney and Ramsay (1973) give an excellent discussion of how displacement histories in rocks may be recorded by patterns of fibrous crystals in veins.
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Means, W.D. (1976). Mechanical Significance of Structure. In: Stress and Strain. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9371-9_4
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