Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Microtectonics

  • Textbook
  • © 1998

Overview

Authors:
  1. C. W. Passchier

    1. Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. R. A. J. Trouw

    1. Depto. de Geologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed   Google Scholar

  • Photographs of high quality complementing the instructive line drawings - Very good didactic concept, including boxes, where special terms are explained - Complete coverage of the field including instrumentation - Glossary

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 74.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIV
    Download chapter PDF

  2. A Framework of Microtectonic Studies

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 1-6

  3. Flow and Deformation

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 7-23

  4. Deformation Mechanisms

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 25-56

  5. Foliations, Lineations and Lattice Preferred Orientation

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 57-96

  6. Shear Zones

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 97-129

  7. Dilatation Sites: Fibrous Veins, Strain Shadows, Strain Fringes and Boudins

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 131-151

  8. Porphyroblasts and Reaction Rims

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 153-196

  9. Natural Microgauges

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 197-207

  10. Special Techniques

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 209-230

  11. From Sample to Section

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 231-237

  12. Exercises

    • C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw
    Pages 239-253

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 255-289
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

About this book

Microtectonics is the interpretation of small-scale deformation structures in rocks. They are studied by optical microscope and contain abundant information on the history and type of deformation and metamorphism in a rock and are therefore used by most geologists to obtain data for large-scale geological interpretations. This advanced textbook contains a large number of photographs and explanatory drawings, special chapters on related techniques, a chapter on microgauges and a simple, non-mathematical treatment of continuum mechanics with practical examples. Special terms are explained in boxes. This textbook is suited for independent use during optical studies on microstructures as a reference manual and as a manual for short courses.

Reviews

"This book succeeds in its stated aim of being a manual for the study of microtectonics...because of its clear and authoritative text and because of its well-chosen very good black and white photographs..." The Australian Geologist
"The strength of this book is the rigorous approach taken to kinematic analysis, with an excellent marriage of advanced theory and practical observation." Jnl of Petrology

Authors and Affiliations

  • Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany

    C. W. Passchier

  • Depto. de Geologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    R. A. J. Trouw

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Microtectonics

  • Authors: C. W. Passchier, R. A. J. Trouw

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08734-3

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1998

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-08734-3Published: 29 June 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIV, 289

  • Number of Illustrations: 256 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Geology, Mineralogy

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation