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Structural geology has been developing at a moderately rapid pace in recent years. The 26 papers of this book cover a wide spectrum of structural geology, from the grain scale to the scale of orogenic belts, from brittle to the ductile field, from shallow-level structures to deep crustal structures. The book is divided in five broad sections: Part One, Fractures, faults and nappes; Part Two, Ductile shear zones; Part Three, Fabric; Part Four, Folds and superposed folds; Part Five, Basement structures. There is a certain amount of overlapping of these topics, especially where a tectonic synthesis of a large orogenic unit has been made.
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Sengupta, S. (1997). Introduction. In: Sengupta, S. (eds) Evolution of Geological Structures in Micro- to Macro-scales. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5870-1_1
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