In geology, a shear zone is a thin zone within the Earth's crust or upper mantle that has been strongly deformed, due to the walls of rock on either side...

may be difficult to place a distinct fault plane into the shear zone. Shear zones may form zones of much more intense foliation, deformation, and folding...

of a spatially segregated displacement field. The eastern California shear zone is the portion of the Walker Lane that extends south from Owens Valley...

the named shear zones affecting the rocks of Great Britain and the Isle of Man. See the main article on shear for a fuller treatment of shear in rocks...

The Foumban Shear Zone, or Central Cameroon Shear Zone (CCSZ), is a fault zone in Cameroon that has been correlated with the Pernambuco fault in northeastern...

The Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) (or Shear System) is a wrench fault system extending in an ENE direction from the Gulf of Guinea through Cameroon...

of Achankovil Shear Zone..." ResearchGate. Retrieved 24 October 2021. Praharaj, P.; S, R. (1 December 2018). "The Achankovil Shear Zone, Southern India:...

deformation: the Redbank Shear Zone and the Officer Basin. The Redbank Shear Zone in the Arunta Block, is a reverse sense shear zone dipping north at about...

Dan Shear Zone is a north–south trending shear zone in Northeastern Ontario, Canada, located in the municipality of Temagami. The Big Dan Shear Zone was...

hinge zone. Concentric folds are caused by warping from active buckling of the layers, whereas similar folds usually form by some form of shear flow where...

depositional contacts, while faults and shear zones are of particular interest in structural geology. Faults and shear zones can be regarded as a form of secondary...

15.66694°S 27.80000°E / -15.66694; 27.80000 The Mwembeshi Shear Zone is a ductile shear zone about 550 million years old that extends ENE-WSW across Zambia...

Craton Shear zones Aswa Dislocation Broodkop Shear Zone Central African Shear Zone Chuan Shear Zones Foumban Shear Zone Kandi Fault Zone Mwembeshi Shear Zone...

(Boiley and Gosselin, 2003) In northern Portugal, along the Vigo–Régua shear zone, the monzogranites belong to the syn-F3 biotite granitoid group. They...

Sierra Nevada mountains called the Walker Lane or Eastern California Shear Zone. The reason for this is not clear. Several hypotheses have been offered...

called shear zones) in which large deformations are concentrated. Slides are also sub-classified by the form of the surface(s) or shear zone(s) on which...

shear zones include the Hamisana Shear Zone (665–610 Ma), the Ar-Rika–Qazaz Shear Zone (640–610 Ma) within the Najd Fault System, and the Oko Shear Zone...

ductile shear zone within which this outcrop resides. The spherical conglomerate pebbles stretched along the direction of movement of this shear zone, attaining...

Malpica-Lamego line is a shear zone forming a line running north–south on the west side of the Galicia-Trás-os-Montes Zone. It is 275 km long and associated...

recent Neoproterozoic sediments. The plate includes shear zones such as the Central African Shear Zone (CASZ) where, in the past, two sections of the crust...

east, near the border with Nevada and Arizona, the Eastern California Shear Zone (ECSZ) takes up to 25 percent of the plate motion. The ECSZ consists of...

ductilely deformed rocks formed by the accumulation of large shear strain, in ductile fault zones. There are many different views on the formation of mylonites...

fractures that are parallel to the major stress orientation, σ1, in a shear zone. They are subsequently filled by precipitation of a mineral, typically...

straight coastline or indeed a combination of these features. Fracture zones, shear zones and igneous intrusions such as dykes can also be expressed as geomorphic...

the Kalaran Orogeny which generated a major fold belt or shear zone, the Fowler Shear Zone, ca. 1600–1540 Ma. Economically important deposits found in...

A high-shear mixer disperses, or transports, one phase or ingredient (liquid, solid, gas) into a main continuous phase (liquid), with which it would normally...

The Sarandí del Yí Shear Zone is a strike slip shear zone in Uruguay. The shear zone has a NNW-SSE orientation and a dextral relative direction. It runs...

Foumban Shear Zone, which was active before and during the opening of the South Atlantic in the Cretaceous period. The western end of the shear zone is obscured...

response to shear stress in a fine-grained shear zone. The transformation occurs along the plane of maximal shear stress. Rapid shearing can then occur...

caused by the thickened crust. Moving basinward is a transition zone, and a contraction zone, which lies in the deep sea part of the basin. The sediment fill...