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More than 80 years ago, Professor Charles Lapworth (1893) considered that two of the life-stages of a geological formation, detrition and deposition, had been studied in the light of present-day processes and that the third stage, deformation, should be similarly studied. Though deformation of the rocks cannot be studied ‘in the light of present-day processes’ in the field, much has been learned by experiment in the laboratory and by the application of mechanical principles to the interpretation of the structures observed. Since Lapworth wrote the words above, great advances have been made in the ‘study of deformation’, that is in structural geology and tectonics. Such advances — for the most part made by specialists who are inclined towards mathematical and mechanical studies — are commonly presented to the reader in a form which frightens the non-specialist to such an extent that he either leaves the subject entirely alone, or he loses himself in a maze of detail and jargon.
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Wilson, G. (1982). Introduction. In: Introduction to Small~scale Geological Structures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6838-0_1
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