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Stretching Lineation

Stretching Lineation is a tectonic fabric element characterized as a linear structural feature formed by the preferred orientation of elongated minerals or mineral aggregates resulting from ductile deformation and finite strain in metamorphic rocks.

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Distributed deformation in southern and western Tibet during and after the India‐Asia collision

Lothar Ratschbacher, Wolfgang Frisch, Guanghua Liu et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 1994 · 478 citations

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Stretching lineations in transpressional shear zones: an example from the Sierra Nevada Batholith, California

Basil Tikoff, D. Greene · Journal of Structural Geology · 1997 · 334 citations

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Transpression (or transtension) zones of triclinic symmetry: natural example and theoretical modelling

Shoufa Lin, Dazhi Jiang, Paul F. Williams · Geological Society London Special Publications · 1998 · 229 citations

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Porphyroblast inclusion trails: the key to orogenesis

T.H. Bell, Scott E. Johnson · Journal of Metamorphic Geology · 1989 · 198 citations

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Progressive extensional shear structures in a detachment contact in the Western Sierra Nevada (Betic Cordilleras, Spain)

Jesús Galindo-Zaldı́var, Francisco González Lodeiro, A. Jabaloy · Geodinamica Acta · 1989 · 162 citations · Full text

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Authors

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  1. SL
    Shoufa Lin

    University of Waterloo, Canada

    4 publications · 346 citations

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  2. PF
    Paul F. Williams

    University of New Brunswick, Canada

    4 publications · 346 citations

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  3. TB
    T.H. Bell

    James Cook University, Australia

    3 publications · 297 citations

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  4. DJ
    Dazhi Jiang

    Western University, Canada

    2 publications · 269 citations

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  5. AV
    Alain Vauchez

    Université de Montpellier, France

    2 publications · 78 citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    4 h-index

    14 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. University of New Brunswick

    Fredericton, Canada

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    652 citations

  3. Université de Montpellier

    Montpellier, France

    3 h-index

    9 publications

    326 citations

  4. James Cook University

    Townsville, Australia

    3 h-index

    5 publications

    557 citations

  5. University of Waterloo

    Waterloo, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    269 citations

  6. University of Minnesota

    Minneapolis, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    687 citations

  7. Geological Survey of Canada

    Ottawa, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    265 citations

  8. ETH Zurich

    Zurich, Switzerland

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    201 citations

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  1. Journal of Structural Geology

    8 publications · 717 citations

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  2. Tectonics

    6 publications · 482 citations

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  3. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences

    4 publications · 46 citations

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  4. Tectonophysics

    4 publications · 263 citations

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  5. Geological Society London Special Publications

    3 publications · 318 citations

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