Journal of Structural Geology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Structural Geology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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The spatial distributions of mineralisation68
Building an inversely zoned post-orogenic intrusion in the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian Araçuaí orogen (Brazil)59
Relationships between intensity of deformation induced Cr–Al chemical zoning and geometrical properties of spinel: An approach applying machine learning analyses56
Fracture ellipticity as a measure of chemical reaction-controlled fracture growth48
Controls of dolomitization and bed thickness on fracture networks in Lower Carboniferous carbonates in southern Belgium37
Control of crustal deformation on orogenic Au mineralization in Himalaya: A case study from Buzhu36
Active strike-slip faulting, diapirism and seismic hazards. The case of the Kareh Bas fault and the associated Dandenjan salt extrusion in the zagros Mountains, SW Iran34
EBSD: Towards a better understanding of the role of deformation in the formation of schistose hypogene high-grade iron ore33
Sustained strain localisation and coeval brittle-ductile deformation in an exhuming low-grade shear zone: Insights from the Saih Hatat Window (NE Oman)32
Development and passive exhumation of high-pressure shear zones (Blueschist Unit, Syros): Insights from quartz and columnar calcite microstructures31
Complexity analysis of three-dimensional stochastic discrete fracture networks with fractal and multifractal techniques31
Structural architecture and maturity of Val d’Agri faults, Italy: Inferences from natural and induced seismicity30
Deformation, crustal melting and magmatism in the crustal-scale East-Variscan Shear Zone (Aiguilles-Rouges and Mont-Blanc massifs, Western Alps)30
Enhanced structural analysis through a hybrid analogue-digital mapping approach: Integrating field and UAV survey with microtomography to characterize metamorphic rocks29
Constraining the ductile deformation mechanisms of garnet across pressure-temperature space28
Analytical model for the activation of off-axis secondary faulting between two dissimilar rock layers27
Comment on ‘Unveiling ductile deformation during fast exhumation of a granitic pluton in a transfer zone’ by Richard Spiess, Antonio Langone, Alfredo Caggianelli, Finlay M. Stuart, Martina Zucchi, Cat26
Fault systems in the offshore sector of the Campi Flegrei caldera (southern Italy): Implications for nested caldera structure, resurgent dome, and volcano-tectonic evolution25
Strain and vorticity analyses using rotated porphyroclasts in the Tanbour metamorphic rocks: Evidence of transpressional deformation along the Sanandaj-Sirjan metamorphic belt, SW Iran24
Structural characterization of late Silurian normal faults in the Quebec Appalachians: Implications for sedimentary basin formation and Laurentian margin exhumation during the Salinic orogeny23
Multi-layers: Do incompetent horizons always act as thrust flats?22
Corrigendum to “A simple computer program for calculating stress and strain rate in 2D viscous inclusion-matrix systems” [J. Struct. Geol. 160 (2022) 104617]22
Thrust vs. fold nappes: Mechanical and geometrical controls from 2D numerical simulations and applications to a recumbent fold of the Pyrenees21
Small-scale size effects on the shearing behavior and sliding stiffness reduction-displacement curves of rock-plastic gouge simulant under low normal stresses21
Lateral and vertical growth and linkage of normal faults in Bozhong8-4 structure of Western Bozhong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China20
Statistical analysis of structures commonly used to determine palaeoslopes from within mass transport deposits20
Superplastic deformation inside the knife-sharp shear bands in mid-crustal granites20
Deformation mechanisms and characteristics of the meta-BIFs from an early Proterozoic shear system of the Southern Granulite Terrane (SGT), India20
Multi-millennia slip rate relationships between closely spaced across-strike faults: Temporal earthquake clustering of the Skinos and Pisia Faults, Greece, from in situ 36Cl cosmogenic exposure dating19
Spacing and strain during multiphase boudinage in 3D19
Matrix deformation of marls in a foreland fold-and-thrust belt: The example of the eastern Jaca basin, southern Pyrenees19
Kinematic reconstruction of active tectonic and halokinetic structures in the 2021 NW Palagruža earthquake area (Central Adriatic)19
Factors influencing fault-propagation folding in the Kuqa Depression: Insights from geomechanical models19
Seismic faulting and CO2-rich fluid interactions: Evidence from carbonate spherulitic grains in ultramafic fault damage zones19
Slip rate deficit partitioned by fault-fold system on the active Haiyuan fault zone, Northeastern Tibetan Plateau19
New 3D fault model for eastern Flanders (Belgium) providing insights on the major deformation phases in the region since the late Paleozoic18
Fracture spacings of fiber inclusions in a ductile geological matrix and development of microboudins: 3D numerical modeling18
Analysis of aperture values of stratabound fractures in bedded rock: Use of the maximum likelihood method in studying a truncated data set18
Uncertainties of balanced sections and the role of basement in the southern Fars area, Iran18
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Localized folding of thick layers17
Structural architecture and micromechanics of the carbonate-hosted low-angle normal fault, Agri Valley, southern Apennines, Italy17
Petrofabric and Raman microspectroscopy study of the Mina Afortunada gneiss dome: Mapping its thermal gradient16
A case of paleoseismic evidence of normal fault capable of triggering an M>8 earthquake − study on Sertengshan range-front fault, north margin of Hetao Basin, China15
Numerical modelling of porphyroclast rotation in the brittle-viscous transition zone15
Effects of water injection on the stress field in the changning shale gas field, Sichuan Province, southwest China15
Continuity of shale-smears in poorly lithified strata15
Structural inheritance and hydrothermal alteration impact on fluid circulation in a clay-rich shear zone14
Full paleostress tensor reconstruction using quartz veins of Panasqueira Mine, central Portugal, part II: Final results14
Along-strike architectural variability of an exhumed crustal-scale seismogenic fault (Bolfin Fault Zone, Atacama Fault System, Chile)14
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Structural characterization of naturally fractured geothermal reservoirs in the central Upper Rhine Graben14
Strain rates recorded in the perimeter-area relationship of recrystallized quartz aggregates from the Sandhill Corner shear zone, Maine, USA13
Developing evolutionary models for deformation band formation in high-porosity suprasalt sandstones: An example from Paradox Basin, Utah13
Conjugate, Riedel-shear vein arrays: A new type of en echelon vein system13
Formation mechanism of bedding-parallel antitaxial fibrous veins in shale: A review13
Microstructural evolution of pseudotachylyte-bearing rocks during increasing temperatures: Evidence from rock-heating experiments13
Influence of paleo-uplift on structural deformation of salt-bearing fold-and-thrust belt: Insights from physical modeling13
Folded joints at first glance13
Power-law relationship between joint spacing and bed thickness in sedimentary rocks and implications for layered rock mechanics13
The impact of multiscale cleat geometry on coal's petrophysical properties in the Lorraine basin, NE France: Implications for coalbed methane (CBM) production and CO2 storage13
Effects of coseismic megasplay fault activity on earthquake hazards: Insights from discrete element simulations13
Testing the cenozoic lower crustal flow beneath the Qinling Orogen, northeastern Tibetan Plateau13
On the petrology and microstructures of small-scale ductile shear zones in granitoid rocks: An overview13
Scale-dependent fracture networks12
Switching from the top-NW backthrusting to top-SE post-orogenic deformation in the Aegean domain: Insights from the calcite microfabric and siliciclastic rocks of the Amorgos Unit (SE Cyclades, Greece12
Architecture of an upper-level weak detachment zone: Mexican Fold and Thrust Belt, central Mexico12
Present-day in-situ stresses in Southern Gulf of Suez, Egypt: Insights for stress rotation in an extensional rift basin12
Discrete element modeling of distal deformation propagation in thrust wedge and implications for early deformation on northern Tibetan and Iranian Plateaus12
Simple rule to assist in the construction of the outcrop trace of an inclined surface12
Late Triassic-Early Jurassic extensional tectonics in the Neuquén Basin (Argentina). New insights from stratigraphic and structural analyses of the Chachil depocenter (39°S)12
The influence of major faults and fractures on the development of non-matrix porosity system in a pre-salt carbonate reservoir, Santos Basin – Brazil12
3D natural fracture model of shale reservoir based on petrophysical characterization12
West Spitsbergen fold and thrust belt: A digital educational data package for teaching structural geology12
Polyphase deformation of staurolite-bearing metapelite in the Chinese Altai: Recording a Devonian-Permian tectonic regime switch in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt12
Strain localization at brittle-ductile transition depths during Miocene magmatism and exhumation in the southern Basin and Range12
Olivine-rich veins in high-pressure serpentinites: A far-field paleo-stress snapshot during subduction12
Growth of cataclastic bands into a fault zone: A multiscalar process by microcrack coalescence in sandstones of Rio do Peixe Basin, NE Brazil11
Geomorphology of contractional salt tectonics along the Kuqa fold-thrust belt, northwestern China: Testing pre-kinematic diapir versus source-fed thrust and detachment fold models11
Fracture-pattern growth in the deep, chemically reactive subsurface11
Comment on the paper “Structural and petrological characteristics of a Jurassic detachment fault from the Mont-Blanc massif (Col du Bonhomme area, France) » by Dall’Asta et al. Published in Journal of11
Evidence of back-folding in the Beas Valley puts Himalayan tectonic models on trial11
An alternative SGR method for shallow siliciclastic rock-A case study from the Kendong uplift of the Bohai Bay Basin11
Fracture networks in shale-hosted igneous intrusions: Processes, distribution and implications for igneous petroleum systems11
Outcrop-scale fracture analysis and seismic modelling of a basin-bounding normal fault in platform carbonates, central Italy11
Impact of salt diapir geometry and caprock composition on gravity survey results11
Coseismic slip gradient at the western terminus of the 1920 Haiyuan Mw 7.9 earthquake11
Mineralogical and frictional properties of fault rocks from the Laohushan creep segment of the Haiyuan fault, Northeastern Tibet11
Along-strike variations of structural style in the external Western Alps (France): Review, insights from analogue models and the role of salt10
Hydrogeological implications of fault-related folding in a Triassic braided sandstone10
Variably rotated lamproite dikes within a transpressive fault zone: Structural and paleomagnetic analysis of the Socovos Fault zone (Eastern Betics, SE Spain)10
Laramide contractional folding in the Devils River Uplift, west Texas, U.S.A.10
Erratum to “The collapse of the Caledonian orogen in SW Norway: Insights from quartz textures” [J. Struct. Geol. 189 (2024) 105274]10
A graphical method and workflow for the generation of structure contours for horizontal cylindrical folds10
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Failure mode transition in brittle boudinage: Effects of cohesion, confining pressure, and layer thickness10
Interaction between shallow and deep structures: Forward-modeling kinematics sequence of a fold-and-thrust belt with double detachment10
Experimental fracture sealing in reservoir sandstones and its relation to rock texture10
Newly discovered, the Kayapa-Yenişehir cross-basin fault: As revealed by geological and geophysical studies along the southern branch of the North Anatolian Fault Zone, a possible source of the destru10
Influence of fault geometry, kinematics and growth rate on syn-tectonic stratigraphic pattern: Insights from the 2D move-on-fault technique in MOVE software9
Numerical modelling of the growth of polygonal fault systems9
The spatial characterization of stepovers along deeply-buried strike-slip faults and their influence on reservoir distribution in the central Tarim Basin, NW China9
Kinematics, intensity, and spatial arrangement of extensional fractures in the Tuxtla-Malpaso fault system: Chiapas strike-slip fault province, southern Mexico9
Towards a comprehensive boundary tectonism model for the late Paleozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountain orogeny9
Ramps first – Interpreting thrust nucleation in multilayers9
Cenozoic structural deformation between the southern Lamprea fold-belt and Salina del Bravo salt province by interacting salt and shale detachments, western Gulf of Mexico9
Anatomy of fractures: Quantifying fracture geometry utilizing X-ray computed tomography in a chalk-marl reservoir; the Lower Cretaceous Valdemar Field (Danish Central Graben)9
Pressure solution-assisted diagenesis and thrusting-related deformation of Mesozoic platform carbonates9
Regular spacing of deformation bands in sandstone: Layer-thickness control or constitutive instability?9
Evolution of tensile fractures in feldspar porphyroclast and its implication in paleostress estimation9
Evidence for an aseismic gap between the Mw6.8 Pütürge (Elazığ) and 7.8 Pazarcık (Kahramanmaraş) earthquakes in the east Anatolian fault system, southeast Türkiye9
Contribution of deformation and reaction of amphiboles to the weakening of the middle continental crust: A case study from sheared diorites along the Shuiyu shear zone in Northern Beijing9
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Kink-bands as indicators of shock-wave propagation direction: Results from experimental impact cratering on gneiss9
Fluid-enhanced diffusive mass transfer combined with GBS as an important process for protracted weakening in the middle-lower crust9
Constraints upon fault zone properties by combined structural analysis of virtual outcrop models and discrete fracture network modelling9
Lithospheric contraction concentric to Tharsis: 3D structural modeling of large thrust faults between Thaumasia highlands and Aonia Terra, Mars9
Migmatite dome as a result of multi-fold interference pattern, in the Damara Belt, Namibia8
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Characteristics and controlling factors of natural fractures in deep lacustrine shale oil reservoirs of the Permian Fengcheng Formation in the Mahu Sag, Junggar Basin, China8
Corrigendum to “Activity and motion characteristics on the southern segment of the Red River fault zone, Yunnan Province, China” [J. Struct. Geol. 188 (2024) 105245]8
Experimental investigations of fractured rock deformation: A direct measurement method using strain gauges8
21Ne and 10Be dating of folded fluvial terraces: Constraining active deformation of the Guman fold along the foothill of the western Kunlun mountains (Xinjiang, China)8
Fold-thrust belt in the southern front of the central High Atlas (Morocco): Analysis and implications for the tectonic inversion of the atlas system8
Structural relationships in and around the Rheasilvia basin on Vesta8
Seismic and outcrop-based 3D characterization of fault damage zones in sandstones, Rio do Peixe Basin, Brazil8
Polyphase deformation in the Badu complex: Insights into Triassic intraplate orogeny in South China8
The use of immersive virtual reality for teaching fieldwork skills in complex structural terrains8
Structural styles of imbricate systems involving multiple detachments: An example from the Subandean fold-thrust belt, southern Bolivia8
Deciphering western Mediterranean kinematics using metamorphic porphyroblasts from the Alpujárride Complex (Betic Cordillera)8
Fracture growth and damage zone evolution in fault-vein systems determined through scaling relations in alteration halo-bearing hydrothermal veins8
Basement fault trends in the Southern North Sea Basin8
Structures and chronology of the Yabrai shear zone in the Alxa, NW China: Constraints on the late Paleozoic shear system in central segment of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt8
Fracture density variations within a reservoir-scale normal fault zone: A case study from shallow-water carbonates of southern Italy8
Spatial migration of temporal earthquake clusters driven by the transfer of differential stress between neighbouring fault/shear-zone structures8
Crack path at bedding planes of cracked layered rocks7
Building tectonic framework of a blind active fault zone using field and ground-penetrating radar data7
Brittle cataclastic process of fault rocks based on a large-displacement direct shear model realized with DEM7
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Fault damage zone and its effect on deep shale gas: Insights from 3D seismic interpretation in the southern Sichuan Basin, China7
Structural and petrological characteristics of a Jurassic detachment fault from the Mont-Blanc massif (Col du Bonhomme area, France)7
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Timing and duration of meteoric water infiltration in the Quiberon detachment zone (Armorican Massif, Variscan belt, France)7
Fault-induced karst features: Insights from the Poço Verde Fault tip in the Northwestern portion of Potiguar Basin, Brazil7
Spatial variability in topology, connectivity and permeability of deformation band networks: Insights from the Jurassic Entrada Sandstone, Utah7
Aperture size distribution, length, and preferential location of bed-parallel veins in shale7
Integrating structural, paleomagnetic, and thermo/geochronologic studies to understand evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts, northern Utah to Wyoming7
Rigorizing the use of the coefficient of variation to diagnose fracture periodicity and clustering7
Magnetic fabrics reveal three-dimensional flow processes within elongate magma fingers at the margin of the Shonkin Sag laccolith (MT, USA)7
Normal fault damage zone growth in map view from analogue models7
Unraveling the emplacement history of a Portuguese post-tectonic Variscan pluton using magnetic fabrics and gravimetry7
A continuum meshfree method for sandbox-style numerical modeling of accretionary and doubly vergent wedges7
The well log and seismic expression of faults in the Wisting field, Barents Sea7
Crystallographic preferred orientations and microtexture of the Himalayan eclogites revealing records of syn-deformation peak metamorphic stage and subsequent exhumation7
Application of morphotectonic indices for assessing active tectonics: A case study of Acheron river basin7
Extension structures as kinematic indicators in monoclinic transpression and transtension zones7
The rise and fall of diapirs during thin-skinned extension revisited7
Synkinematic evolution of stylolite porosity7
Monazite as a monitor of shear strain in orogenic crust7
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Study examining active buried faults using shallow seismic reflection and joint multi-drilling: A case from the Xinding Basin, Shanxi Graben system7
A dynamic atlas of interference patterns in superimposed, opposite sense ductile shear zones7
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Nanoscale visualization of high-angle misorientations in quartz-rich rocks using SEM-EBSD and Atomic Force Microscopy7
Deformational in curved fold-and-thrust belts: As a function of backstop shape and basal friction: Insights from analogue modeling and application to the Pamir salient, Hindu Kush region6
Discrete fracture network (DFN) modelling of a high-level radioactive waste repository host rock and the effects on its hydrogeological behaviour6
Data sampling strategies for accurate fault analyses: A scale-independent test based on a machine learning approach6
Notes on progressive deformation and deformation paths6
Growth of a salt diapir in an anticline - A record from the Cenozoic halokinetic sequences in the Zagros Fold and Thrust Belt, Iran6
The Chaochou active fault in southern Taiwan: Characteristics and geomorphological significance as a reverse fault6
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Shape of plutons in crustal shear zones: A tectono-magmatic guide based on analogue models6
Transpression in the Sanandaj-Sirjan Zone (Zagros Orogen, Iran) during the Jurassic and Early Cretaceous: Evidence from the North Shahrekord Shear Zone6
Evolution of fracture networks and connectivity during fault–bend folding: Insights from the Sinon Anticline in the southwestern Hongseong–Imjingang Belt, Korea6
Structural heterogeneities in fault-controlled cavity carbonate reservoirs: Insights into fracture and fault patterns6
Using migrating growth strata to confirm a ∼230-km-long detachment thrust in the southern Tarim Basin6
Long-lived seismic instability of a large intraplate brittle shear zone revealed by distributed slip zones and paleoseismic frictional melt, eastern Botswana6
Co- and postseismic stress transfer on different types of faults in Southern Tibet by the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake6
A key role for diffusion creep in eclogites: Omphacite deformation in the Zermatt-Saas unit, Italian Alps6
Syn-tectonic development of the shape preferred orientation of phyllosilicates: A two-dimensional simulation of foliation development using the March model6
Coupled relationships between overburden stress and ultra-deep sandstone brittle deformation properties based on in situ CT scanning6
Finite strain, kinematic vorticity, rheological behavior and thermochronology of the Diancang Shan complex: Insights into channel flow of the southeastern Tibetan plateau6
Geochemistry of syntaxial calcite veins in ultra-deep sandstone reservoirs from the Kuqa depression, western China6
Mechanical behaviors of intact antigorite as functions of temperature: Faulting, slow stick-slip and stable sliding6
A refined approach for quantitative kinematic vorticity number estimation using microstructures6
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Reactivation potential of inherited structures on southwestern Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada6
Detachment folding, growth mechanism and seismic potential in the Jammu Sub-Himalaya6
Geomorphic expression of transverse drainages across the Tugerming anticline, southern Tian Shan: Implications for the river-fold interaction in the foreland6
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Effect of interface morphology on the heterogeneous development of bedding-perpendicular joints in soft–hard interbedded strata6
4D fault evolution revealed by footwall exhumation modelling: A natural experiment in the Malawi rift6
New constraints for slip rates along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwestern Tibet Plateau6
Multi-stage evolution of the South Tibetan Detachment System in central Himalaya: Insights from carbonate-bearing rocks6
Multiple fabrics in the Tavares pluton (NE Brazil): Insights on the interplay between emplacement mechanism, internal magmatic processes, and tectonic deformation6
The Cabo Frio Thrust: A folded suture zone, Ribeira belt, SE Brazil6
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Structural geologic modeling and restoration using ensemble Kalman inversion6
Transtensional flanking structures6
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