The anisotropy of deformation and strength behavior in quartz mica schist is fundamental to rock mechanics. Here, we concentrated on the practical application numerical simulation rock. First, existence engineering was reported, tested situ, analyzed. Then, a set specially designed multi-angle uniaxial compression tests conducted. Based these, two methods (explicit implicit) for were demonstrat...

Soil conservation and control of erosion is a basic problem in all countries. The goal of this research is to estimate erosion and sediment yield in Ekbatan Dam drainage basin by Erosion Potential Method (EPM), using Geographic Information System (GIS). The basin is located in Hamedan Province, west of Iran, in a cold and semi- arid region, with an average annual rainfall of 334mm. The study ar...

Semi-pelitic rocks ranging in grade from the prehnite–pumpellyite to the greenschist facies from southeastern Otago, New Zealand, have been investigated in order to evaluate the reactions leading to formation and breakdown of stilpnomelane. Detrital grains of mica and chlorite along with fine-grained authigenic illite and chlorite occur in lower-grade rocks with compactional fabric parallel to ...

Ladd (1934: 51, Fig. 6) gave a brief description of the former Melanesian continent and outlined on a map of the Pacific Ocean south of lat. 10° N. the probable eastern boundaries of several types of rocks, as well as the probable eastern boundary of the former Melanesian continent. His map, with some modifications, is reproduced as Figure 3 in this paper. In the original figure, one of the lin...

Metamorphic index mineral zones, pressure– temperature (P–T) conditions, and CO2–H2O fluid compositions were determined for metacarbonate layers within the Wepawaug Schist, Connecticut, USA. Peak metamorphic conditions were attained in the Acadian orogeny and increase from 420 C and 6.5 kb in the low-grade greenschist facies to 610 C and 9.5 kb in the amphibolite facies. The index minerals olig...

an important concern in rock mechanics is non-homogeneity as joints or fault. this noticeable feature of failures in rock is appearance of slip surfaces or shear bands, the characteristics of that are associated with deformation being concentrated in a narrow zones and the surrounding material remaining intact. adopting the joints as fractures, fractures are well known for their effects on the ...

In the Dusina area, which is built up of Lower Palaeozoic metasediments, Devonian carbonate complex and Upper Palaeozoic metarhyolites unconformably overlain by Upper Permian sediments, numerous ore occurrences have been investigated: (a) "stratabound" metamorphic hematite deposits in the pre-Devonian metasediments; (b) epigenetic veins and pipes of barite (& calcite) with accessory Hg-tetrahed...

Samples of fault gouge from the San Andreas Fault drill hole (SAFOD), a shale from the North Sea sedimentary basin and schists from metamorphic rocks in the Alps have been analyzed with high energy synchrotron X-rays to determine preferred orientation of mica and clay minerals. The method relies on obtaining 2D diffraction images which are then processed with the crystallographic Rietveld metho...