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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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Thickness of an extensional plate-boundary shear zone in the mantle: Implications for tectonic controls on strain localization and transient strain rates85
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 Iran66
Sustained strain localisation and coeval brittle-ductile deformation in an exhuming low-grade shear zone: Insights from the Saih Hatat Window (NE Oman)62
Enhanced structural analysis through a hybrid analogue-digital mapping approach: Integrating field and UAV survey with microtomography to characterize metamorphic rocks53
Deformation, crustal melting and magmatism in the crustal-scale East-Variscan Shear Zone (Aiguilles-Rouges and Mont-Blanc massifs, Western Alps)43
Naturally deformed polymineralic rocks provide quantitative rheological information40
Controls of dolomitization and bed thickness on fracture networks in Lower Carboniferous carbonates in southern Belgium38
Microstructure of garnet in calc-silicate rocks from Cheongsong, South Korea: Effects of fluid and deformation34
Relationships between intensity of deformation induced Cr–Al chemical zoning and geometrical properties of spinel: An approach applying machine learning analyses33
EBSD: Towards a better understanding of the role of deformation in the formation of schistose hypogene high-grade iron ore33
Fracture ellipticity as a measure of chemical reaction-controlled fracture growth31
Development and passive exhumation of high-pressure shear zones (Blueschist Unit, Syros): Insights from quartz and columnar calcite microstructures31
A prototype geological model for outcrop multi-stage fracture-karst evolution: Implications for fluid flow heterogeneity in Ordovician carbonates, NW Tarim Basin29
Spatial heterogeneity of burial-related fracture networks controls compartmentalized fluid flow in volcano-sedimentary sequences27
Multiscale subsurface structural study – insights from the Polish part of the Southern Permian Basin26
Complexity analysis of three-dimensional stochastic discrete fracture networks with fractal and multifractal techniques26
Structural architecture and maturity of Val d’Agri faults, Italy: Inferences from natural and induced seismicity25
Control of crustal deformation on orogenic Au mineralization in Himalaya: A case study from Buzhu25
Thrust vs. fold nappes: Mechanical and geometrical controls from 2D numerical simulations and applications to a recumbent fold of the Pyrenees23
Superplastic deformation inside the knife-sharp shear bands in mid-crustal granites22
Kinematic reconstruction of active tectonic and halokinetic structures in the 2021 NW Palagruža earthquake area (Central Adriatic)22
Richard Lisle in Oviedo (Spain): Contributions to the analysis of folding – a review21
Lateral and vertical growth and linkage of normal faults in Bozhong8-4 structure of Western Bozhong Sag, Bohai Bay Basin, China21
Seismic faulting and CO2-rich fluid interactions: Evidence from carbonate spherulitic grains in ultramafic fault damage zones21
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 dating20
Matrix deformation of marls in a foreland fold-and-thrust belt: The example of the eastern Jaca basin, southern Pyrenees20
External and internal salt geometries – a mining and geoscience review19
Controlling factors of the strike-slip fault segmentation: insight from DEM modelling19
Spacing and strain during multiphase boudinage in 3D19
Multi-layers: Do incompetent horizons always act as thrust flats?19
Corrigendum to “A simple computer program for calculating stress and strain rate in 2D viscous inclusion-matrix systems” [J. Struct. Geol. 160 (2022) 104617]19
Fault systems in the offshore sector of the Campi Flegrei caldera (southern Italy): Implications for nested caldera structure, resurgent dome, and volcano-tectonic evolution19
Deformation mechanisms of compressional overlapping area in strike-slip fault zone: Insights from experimental simulation18
Effects of water injection on the stress field in the changning shale gas field, Sichuan Province, southwest China17
Localized folding of thick layers17
Factors influencing fault-propagation folding in the Kuqa Depression: Insights from geomechanical models17
Petrofabric and Raman microspectroscopy study of the Mina Afortunada gneiss dome: Mapping its thermal gradient16
Analysis of aperture values of stratabound fractures in bedded rock: Use of the maximum likelihood method in studying a truncated data set16
Three-dimensional bedrock implicit modeling and uncertainty quantification from sparse geological map data16
Temperature-dependent frictional properties of opal gouge and their implications for faulting in opaline chert at the Japan Trench subduction zone15
Continuity of shale-smears in poorly lithified strata15
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
Fracture spacings of fiber inclusions in a ductile geological matrix and development of microboudins: 3D numerical modeling15
New 3D fault model for eastern Flanders (Belgium) providing insights on the major deformation phases in the region since the late Paleozoic15
Uncertainties of balanced sections and the role of basement in the southern Fars area, Iran15
Effects of pre-existing fractures on dike propagation: new insights from field data and numerical modelling14
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Structural architecture and micromechanics of the carbonate-hosted low-angle normal fault, Agri Valley, southern Apennines, Italy14
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Microstructures and deformation mechanisms of mass transport-related, soft-sediment folds14
Fracture analysis of the lithium-bearing Cligga Head granite: Impacts on critical mineral mobilisation and fluid flow14
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Influence of tectonic regime superposition on damage zone structures in a basin-boundary fault, Jatobá basin, NE Brazil14
A modern scientific methodology for structural geology13
Folding of a single layer in an effectively anisotropic host: the role of viscosity stratification and confinement on growth rates and fold patterns13
Along-strike architectural variability of an exhumed crustal-scale seismogenic fault (Bolfin Fault Zone, Atacama Fault System, Chile)13
On the petrology and microstructures of small-scale ductile shear zones in granitoid rocks: An overview13
Anisotropy of fracture nodes using wavelet analysis13
Strain localization at brittle-ductile transition depths during Miocene magmatism and exhumation in the southern Basin and Range13
Full paleostress tensor reconstruction using quartz veins of Panasqueira Mine, central Portugal, part II: Final results13
Discrete element modeling of distal deformation propagation in thrust wedge and implications for early deformation on northern Tibetan and Iranian Plateaus13
Formation mechanism of bedding-parallel antitaxial fibrous veins in shale: A review13
Strain rates recorded in the perimeter-area relationship of recrystallized quartz aggregates from the Sandhill Corner shear zone, Maine, USA12
The influence of kinematics of deformation on polycrystalline halite dynamic recrystallization: Full-field simulation of simple shear versus pure shear12
The influence of major faults and fractures on the development of non-matrix porosity system in a pre-salt carbonate reservoir, Santos Basin – Brazil12
Sequence, duration, rate of deformation and paleostress evolution during fold development: Insights from fractures, calcite twins and U-Pb calcite geochronology in the Mirabeau anticline (SE France)12
Olivine-rich veins in high-pressure serpentinites: A far-field paleo-stress snapshot during subduction12
Revisiting surface ruptures of the 1955 Zheduotang earthquake (Mw 7.1) in eastern tibet: kinematic implications on the southern Xianshuihe fault zone12
Structural inheritance and hydrothermal alteration impact on fluid circulation in a clay-rich shear zone12
Strain localization in quartzo-feldspathic mylonites from Patos shear zone revealed by EBSD data12
Conjugate, Riedel-shear vein arrays: A new type of en echelon vein system12
Developing evolutionary models for deformation band formation in high-porosity suprasalt sandstones: An example from Paradox Basin, Utah12
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 storage12
Impact of salt diapir geometry and caprock composition on gravity survey results11
Mineralogical and frictional properties of fault rocks from the Laohushan creep segment of the Haiyuan fault, Northeastern Tibet11
Testing the cenozoic lower crustal flow beneath the Qinling Orogen, northeastern Tibetan Plateau11
Scale-dependent fracture networks11
Water-fluxed melting and rheological weakening within the continental-scale Ailaoshan-Red River strike-slip shear zone, Western Yunnan, China11
Fracture-pattern growth in the deep, chemically reactive subsurface11
Failure mode transition in brittle boudinage: Effects of cohesion, confining pressure, and layer thickness11
Controls on shear band orientation in deforming porous rocks: Insights from improved microcrack segmentation method11
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, Greece11
3D natural fracture model of shale reservoir based on petrophysical characterization11
Influence of stress field changes on fracture network development: an outcrop study in carbonate rocks, Potiguar Basin, Brazil11
Along-strike variations of structural style in the external Western Alps (France): Review, insights from analogue models and the role of salt11
Multi-phase deformation in the Qixingtai region of Western Shandong Province: insights into the Neoarchean tectonic evolution of the eastern North China Craton11
Simple rule to assist in the construction of the outcrop trace of an inclined surface11
Integration of deformed objects into a composite object analogous to the strain ellipse: a novel graphic method of R/ϕ strain analysis11
Evidence of back-folding in the Beas Valley puts Himalayan tectonic models on trial11
Geomorphology of contractional salt tectonics along the Kuqa fold-thrust belt, northwestern China: Testing pre-kinematic diapir versus source-fed thrust and detachment fold models10
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Erratum to “The collapse of the Caledonian orogen in SW Norway: Insights from quartz textures” [J. Struct. Geol. 189 (2024) 105274]10
Numerical modeling of young-beneath-old subduction and implications for Taiwan-Luzon double volcanic arc in East Asia10
Lithospheric contraction concentric to Tharsis: 3D structural modeling of large thrust faults between Thaumasia highlands and Aonia Terra, Mars10
West Spitsbergen fold and thrust belt: A digital educational data package for teaching structural geology10
Dolomite recrystallization associated with oblique slip on discrete fault surfaces: Experimental and natural examples from the Somiedo nappe10
Towards a comprehensive boundary tectonism model for the late Paleozoic Ancestral Rocky Mountain orogeny10
A new mode of syn-depositional folding in the Zechstein Supergroup due to differential loading and diagenetically induced density inversion10
Interaction between shallow and deep structures: Forward-modeling kinematics sequence of a fold-and-thrust belt with double detachment10
A quantitative assessment of tectonic stretching in the northern North Sea, the Triassic of the Utsira High and greater Tampen Spur area10
Polyphase deformation of staurolite-bearing metapelite in the Chinese Altai: Recording a Devonian-Permian tectonic regime switch in the southwestern Central Asian Orogenic Belt10
Crystal preferred orientation of lawsonite and glaucophane in lawsonite blueschist deformed in general shear10
A graphical method and workflow for the generation of structure contours for horizontal cylindrical folds10
Ultracataclastic vein evolution within a granodiorite along the Naxos-Paros Detachment System10
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
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 of10
Fluid-enhanced diffusive mass transfer combined with GBS as an important process for protracted weakening in the middle-lower crust9
Kinematics, intensity, and spatial arrangement of extensional fractures in the Tuxtla-Malpaso fault system: Chiapas strike-slip fault province, southern Mexico9
Partitioning of strain rates and stresses between a thin shear zone and its walls under transpression or transtension9
Migmatite dome as a result of multi-fold interference pattern, in the Damara Belt, Namibia9
Primary ultra-high-grade Au mineralisation driven by sustained fracture dilation and fluid flow9
Characteristics and controlling factors of natural fractures in deep lacustrine shale oil reservoirs of the Permian Fengcheng Formation in the Mahu Sag, Junggar Basin, China9
Paleostress estimation using tensile fractures in feldspar porphyroclasts within porphyritic granitoids of the North Purulia region, Chotanagpur Gneissic Complex, India9
Kink-bands as indicators of shock-wave propagation direction: Results from experimental impact cratering on gneiss9
Laramide contractional folding in the Devils River Uplift, west Texas, U.S.A.9
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
Evolution of tensile fractures in feldspar porphyroclast and its implication in paleostress estimation9
Structural relationships in and around the Rheasilvia basin on Vesta9
Mapping fault architecture from depth to surface: integrating microseismicity and structural geology in low-strain Apennine regions9
A workflow for the graphical generation of structure contours for plunging cylindrical folds9
Variably rotated lamproite dikes within a transpressive fault zone: Structural and paleomagnetic analysis of the Socovos Fault zone (Eastern Betics, SE Spain)9
Pressure solution-assisted diagenesis and thrusting-related deformation of Mesozoic platform carbonates9
Ramps first – Interpreting thrust nucleation in multilayers9
Characteristics and modelling of slip-rate variability and temporal earthquake clustering across a distributed network of active normal faults constrained by in situ 36Cl cosmogenic dating of fault sc9
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
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Hydrogeological implications of fault-related folding in a Triassic braided sandstone9
Synkinematic evolution of stylolite porosity8
Fault damage zone and its effect on deep shale gas: Insights from 3D seismic interpretation in the southern Sichuan Basin, China8
The rise and fall of diapirs during thin-skinned extension revisited8
Strain partitioning and fault interaction during the 2023 Mw 6.8 Al-Haouz earthquake, Western High Atlas, Morocco8
Paleostress estimation using multiple fault-slip inversion methods: implications for constraining stress tensor type8
Deciphering western Mediterranean kinematics using metamorphic porphyroblasts from the Alpujárride Complex (Betic Cordillera)8
Seismic and outcrop-based 3D characterization of fault damage zones in sandstones, Rio do Peixe Basin, Brazil8
Crustal deformation studies in Jammu Himalaya using PSInSAR technique8
Magnetic fabrics reveal three-dimensional flow processes within elongate magma fingers at the margin of the Shonkin Sag laccolith (MT, USA)8
Monazite as a monitor of shear strain in orogenic crust8
Variscan superposition on ordovician extensional fault-related folds in the Eastern Pyrenees8
Brittle cataclastic process of fault rocks based on a large-displacement direct shear model realized with DEM8
Anatomy of fractures: Quantifying fracture geometry utilizing X-ray computed tomography in a chalk-marl reservoir; the Lower Cretaceous Valdemar Field (Danish Central Graben)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
Analysis of middle to deep-depth strike-slip faults in the southern Ordos Basin, China: A case study of the Xunyi area8
Spatial migration of temporal earthquake clusters driven by the transfer of differential stress between neighbouring fault/shear-zone structures8
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 Beijing8
Fault-induced karst features: Insights from the Poço Verde Fault tip in the Northwestern portion of Potiguar Basin, Brazil8
Rigorizing the use of the coefficient of variation to diagnose fracture periodicity and clustering8
Structural styles of imbricate systems involving multiple detachments: An example from the Subandean fold-thrust belt, southern Bolivia8
Application of morphotectonic indices for assessing active tectonics: A case study of Acheron river basin8
Extension structures as kinematic indicators in monoclinic transpression and transtension zones8
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
The use of immersive virtual reality for teaching fieldwork skills in complex structural terrains8
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
Fracture growth and damage zone evolution in fault-vein systems determined through scaling relations in alteration halo-bearing hydrothermal veins8
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
Nanoscale visualization of high-angle misorientations in quartz-rich rocks using SEM-EBSD and Atomic Force Microscopy8
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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
The Chaochou active fault in southern Taiwan: Characteristics and geomorphological significance as a reverse fault7
Data sampling strategies for accurate fault analyses: A scale-independent test based on a machine learning approach7
Corrigendum to “Structural evolution of the southern Swayze greenstone belt, Superior Craton: Implications for the Neoarchean crustal dynamics” [J. Struct. Geol. (2025) 105373]7
Integrating structural, paleomagnetic, and thermo/geochronologic studies to understand evolution of the Sevier and Laramide belts, northern Utah to Wyoming7
Syn-tectonic development of the shape preferred orientation of phyllosilicates: A two-dimensional simulation of foliation development using the March model7
The well log and seismic expression of faults in the Wisting field, Barents Sea7
Growth of a salt diapir in an anticline - A record from the Cenozoic halokinetic sequences in the Zagros Fold and Thrust Belt, Iran7
Structural geologic modeling and restoration using ensemble Kalman inversion7
Discrete-element numerical simulations of thrust-related folding: Insights into back-limb deformation7
Study examining active buried faults using shallow seismic reflection and joint multi-drilling: A case from the Xinding Basin, Shanxi Graben system7
Crystallographic preferred orientations and microtexture of the Himalayan eclogites revealing records of syn-deformation peak metamorphic stage and subsequent exhumation7
Structural heterogeneities in fault-controlled cavity carbonate reservoirs: Insights into fracture and fault patterns7
Coupled relationships between overburden stress and ultra-deep sandstone brittle deformation properties based on in situ CT scanning7
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 region7
4D fault evolution revealed by footwall exhumation modelling: A natural experiment in the Malawi rift7
Long-lived seismic instability of a large intraplate brittle shear zone revealed by distributed slip zones and paleoseismic frictional melt, eastern Botswana7
What do flexural normal faults tell us about fold-and-thrust belts and foredeep flexures? Cantabrian zone (Ibero-Armorican Orocline core) examples7
New constraints for slip rates along the Altyn Tagh fault, northwestern Tibet Plateau7
Normal fault damage zone growth in map view from analogue models7
Reactivation potential of inherited structures on southwestern Grand Banks, Newfoundland, Canada7
The role of cretaceous tectonics in the present-day architecture of the NICE arc (Western Subalpine foreland, France)7
Multiple fabrics in the Tavares pluton (NE Brazil): Insights on the interplay between emplacement mechanism, internal magmatic processes, and tectonic deformation7
Structural and petrological characteristics of a Jurassic detachment fault from the Mont-Blanc massif (Col du Bonhomme area, France)7
Simulation and modelling of an argon age spectrum from biotite in the Yilgarn Craton immediately adjacent to the Albany–Fraser Orogen, Western Australia7
Finite strain, kinematic vorticity, rheological behavior and thermochronology of the Diancang Shan complex: Insights into channel flow of the southeastern Tibetan plateau7
Mechanical behaviors of intact antigorite as functions of temperature: Faulting, slow stick-slip and stable sliding7
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Notes on progressive deformation and deformation paths6
A key role for diffusion creep in eclogites: Omphacite deformation in the Zermatt-Saas unit, Italian Alps6
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
Multi-stage evolution of the South Tibetan Detachment System in central Himalaya: Insights from carbonate-bearing rocks6
Pressure-temperature-time deformation of an Ediacaran-Cambrian foreland fold-and-thrust belt: the Southern Espinhaço Front, Araçuaí Orogen6
Transpression or polyphase deformation along craton margins: Insights from the Archean–Proterozoic boundary near Sudbury, Canada6
Analogue modelling of the Ainsa oblique zone in the Southern Central Pyrenees, Spain6
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Co- and postseismic stress transfer on different types of faults in Southern Tibet by the 2015 Mw7.8 Gorkha earthquake6
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Deformation microstructures of low- and high-strain epidote-blueschist (Ryukyu arc, Japan): Implications for subduction interface rheology6
Mapping faults in 3D seismic data – why the method matters6
Natural fractures in ultra-deep reservoirs of China: A review6
Distributions of throws, widths and scarp slopes on normal faults and their relations to fault growth: Insights from Auto_Throw code6
Extending node-based topological measures of fracture network connectivity using spatial heterogeneity6
Depth-dependent in-situ stress state of the Longmen Shan fault Belt: Evidence from Wenchuan earthquake fault scientific drilling project Hole-2 image logs and core6
Development of flanking structures in layered gneissic rock: Insights from numerical modelling6
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A dynamic atlas of interference patterns in superimposed, opposite sense ductile shear zones6
Structural and stratigraphic control on fluid flow in the Mt. Conero anticline, Italy: An analog for offshore resource reservoirs in fold-and-thrust belts6
Folds inside pebbles: When do they form during conglomerate deformation? Numerical modelling and comparison with the Hutuo Group conglomerates, North China Craton6
Evolution of H2O content in deforming quartz aggregates: An experimental study6
Geochemistry of syntaxial calcite veins in ultra-deep sandstone reservoirs from the Kuqa depression, western China6
Prolonged grain boundary sliding in naturally deformed calcite marble at the middle crustal level6
How do inherited dip-slip faults affect the development of new extensional faults? Insights from wet clay analog models6
Transtensional flanking structures6
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