Fold-thrust belts are zones of intense crustal shortening where layers of sedimentary rock are deformed by folding and thrust faulting. These belts form at convergent plate margins and within ...
Outline diagram of the foreland thrust zone of Xuefeng Mountain. (b) Schematic diagram of the foreland thrust zone of Xuefeng Mountain. A pioneering study published in Geoscience—a premier journal ...
Shales often act as mechanically weak, overpressured detachment horizons that localise deformation in fold-and-thrust belts. Their ductile to visco-plastic behaviour under critical-state conditions ...