Tension fractures and boudinage oblique to the maximum extension direction: an analogy with lüders' bands
- 1 March 1982
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier BV in Tectonophysics
- Vol. 83 (3-4), 347-363
- https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-1951(82)90027-0
Abstract
A study has been made of the orientation of boudin necklines and extension fractures with respect to the maximum extension direction X determined by infilling fibre growth. Several localities, within the Variscan belt of Western Europe, the Pyrenees and the Alps, have been investigated in detail. It has been generally accepted that boudinage and extension fracturing occur perpendicular to X in the rock at the time of their formation; however, we have shown that is not the case: boudin necklines and extension fractures occur at an angle between 45°–90° to X , with the most frequent orientations between 65°–70° and 80°–85°. Angles of exactly 90° are rare. In order to explain · this obliquity, an analogy is made with the phenomenon of Lüders' bands (localised regions of plastic deformation) developed in thin metal plates under tensile testing. Because the thickness of a layer is negligible compared with its lateral extent, we will only be concerned here with the case of thin metal plates.Keywords
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