The method of breakpoint-match-tracing is a new numerical simulation one to reconstruct the fault deformation process in three-dimensional space. This method, however, based on the spatial data relationship of three dimensional geological bodies, will reconstruct their original relationship result from using match path to trace the breakpoint and computation. Through picking up the breakpoint i...

Introduction: Planar deformation features (PDFs) in quartz are diagnostic impact evidence. Using light microscopy, it is often impossible to distinguish between PDFs and tectonic deformation lamellae. [1] showed that PDFs can be imaged using a cathodoluminescence (CL) detector in a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and that in SEM-CL images PDFs can be distinguished from tectonic microfracture...

This paper provides a brief review of airborne light detection and ranging (LiDAR) data for characterizing linear and planar geomorphic markers in tectonic geomorphology, including traces of active faults and surface deformation caused by earthquakes. Challenges and opportunities of LiDAR for the study of tectonic geomorphology and coseismic deformation are also discussed.

recently than others; Europa could experience current cryovolcanic and tectonic activity. Global-scale patterns of tectonic Images of Europa from the Galileo spacecraft show a surface features suggest deformation resulting from non-synchronous with a complex history involving tectonic deformation, impact rotation of Europa around Jupiter. Some regions of the lithocratering, and possible emplace...

[1] Meteor Crater provides a rare opportunity to study impact deformation of sedimentary target rocks and isolate those features from preexisting tectonic deformation and impact-generated reactivation of preexisting tectonic features. This study reports over 2500 new measurements of orientations of bedding, faults, and fractures in crater walls and in surrounding bedrock. Target rocks are chara...

Experimental annealing of galena samples with known deformation histories shows that this mineral has the necessary properties to be a valuable source of information about low-grade deformational environments. Annealed galena displays recovery and/or recrystallization features dependent upon the type of texture inherited from the tectonic event, which in turn is closely linked to deformation te...

The lithosphere, which includes the crust and the uppermost part of the mantle, is the mechanically strong outer shell of the Earth. The lithosphere is broken into a dozen or so pieces, called the tectonic plates. Constant motions between these tectonic plates cause lithospheric deformation, which leads to mountain building, earthquakes, and many other geological processes, including geohazards...

Sakhalin has been affected by several phases of Cretaceous and Tertiary deformation due to the complex interaction of plates in the northwest Pacific region. A detailed understanding of the strain is important because it will provide constraints on platescale processes that control the formation and deformation of marginal sedimentary basins. Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility (AMS) data wer...

We use Quaternary stratigraphy to reconstruct landscape evolution and measure tectonic deformation of the Olympic Mountains section of the Pacifi c Northwest Coast Range. An important motivation for understanding orogenesis here, and throughout the Coast Range, is the concern about the relationship of active deformation to seismic hazards associated with the Cascadia subduction zone. There is a...