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Unlocking the spatial dimension: digital technologies and the future of geoscience fieldwork (2005)
Journal Article
McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Wilson, R., Clegg, P., Imber, J., …Trinks, I. (2005). Unlocking the spatial dimension: digital technologies and the future of geoscience fieldwork. Journal of the Geological Society, 162(6), 927-938. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764905-017

The development of affordable digital technologies that allow the collection and analysis of georeferenced field data represents one of the most significant changes in field-based geoscientific study since the invention of the geological map. Digital... Read More about Unlocking the spatial dimension: digital technologies and the future of geoscience fieldwork.

Putting the geology back into Earth models (2005)
Journal Article
McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Imber, J., Clegg, P., De Paola, N., Jones, R., …Trinks, I. (2005). Putting the geology back into Earth models. Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union, 86(46), 461-466. https://doi.org/10.1029/2005eo460001

New digital methods for data capture can now provide photorealistic, spatially precise, and geometrically accurate three-dimensional (3-D) models of rocks exposed at the Earth's surface [Xu et al., 2000; Pringle et al., 2001; Clegg et al., 2005]. The... Read More about Putting the geology back into Earth models.

The development and behaviour of low-angle normal faults during Cenozoic asymmetric extension in the Northern Apennines, Italy (2005)
Journal Article
Collettini, C., De Paola, N., Holdsworth, R. E., & Barchi, M. (2006). The development and behaviour of low-angle normal faults during Cenozoic asymmetric extension in the Northern Apennines, Italy. Journal of Structural Geology, 28(2), 333-352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2005.10.003

Movements on low-angle normal faults (LANF) are not predicted by traditional Anderson–Byerlee frictional fault mechanics. Our investigations centre on three normal fault systems active at distinct times during the regional extension of the Northern A... Read More about The development and behaviour of low-angle normal faults during Cenozoic asymmetric extension in the Northern Apennines, Italy.

Early Tertiary sinistral transpression and fault reactivation in the western Vøring Basin, Norwegian Sea: implications for hydrocarbon exploration and pre-break up deformation in ocean margin basins (2005)
Journal Article
Imber, J., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., Jones, R., England, R., & Gjeldvik, G. (2005). Early Tertiary sinistral transpression and fault reactivation in the western Vøring Basin, Norwegian Sea: implications for hydrocarbon exploration and pre-break up deformation in ocean margin basins. AAPG Bulletin, 89(8), 1043-1069. https://doi.org/10.1306/02240504043

The Nyk High is an approximately northeast-trending, Late Cretaceous to early Tertiary structural high situated in the western Vøring Basin, offshore Norway. It is defined by a thick sequence of Upper Cretaceous to lower Tertiary sediments that dip t... Read More about Early Tertiary sinistral transpression and fault reactivation in the western Vøring Basin, Norwegian Sea: implications for hydrocarbon exploration and pre-break up deformation in ocean margin basins.

Scale dependence, strain compatibility and heterogeneity of three-dimensional deformation during mountain building: a discussion (2005)
Journal Article
Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Clegg, P., & Tavarnelli, E. (2005). Scale dependence, strain compatibility and heterogeneity of three-dimensional deformation during mountain building: a discussion. Journal of Structural Geology, 27(7), 1190-1204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2005.04.001

Plate motion at convergent margins causes crustal shortening and orogenic thickening. Relative motion that is oblique to the plate margins is an inevitable consequence of plate kinematics on a sphere and results in non-coaxial three-dimensional defor... Read More about Scale dependence, strain compatibility and heterogeneity of three-dimensional deformation during mountain building: a discussion.

The influence of lithology and pre-existing structures on reservoir-scale faulting patterns in transtensional rift zones (2005)
Journal Article
De Paola, N., Holdsworth, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2005). The influence of lithology and pre-existing structures on reservoir-scale faulting patterns in transtensional rift zones. Journal of the Geological Society, 162(3), 471-480. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764904-043

In transtensional and transpressional deformation zones, bulk 3D strains are often kinematically partitioned into regions of wrench- and extension- or shortening-dominated faulting. Most strain models assume ideal incompressible materials with a Pois... Read More about The influence of lithology and pre-existing structures on reservoir-scale faulting patterns in transtensional rift zones.

Partitioned transtension: an alternative to basin inversion models (2005)
Journal Article
De Paola, N., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., & Barchi, M. (2005). Partitioned transtension: an alternative to basin inversion models. Journal of Structural Geology, 27(4), 607-625. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2005.01.006

‘Inversion structures’ (e.g. folds, reverse faults) spatially associated with basin-bounding faults are very widely recognised in rift basins in both onshore and offshore settings worldwide. The great majority of such structures are attributed to loc... Read More about Partitioned transtension: an alternative to basin inversion models.

Fault zone weakening and character of slip along low-angle normal faults: insights from the Zuccale fault, Elba, Italy (2004)
Journal Article
Collettini, C., & Holdsworth, R. (2004). Fault zone weakening and character of slip along low-angle normal faults: insights from the Zuccale fault, Elba, Italy. Journal of the Geological Society, 161(6), 1039-1052. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764903-179

A seismically active low-angle normal fault is recognized at depth in the Northern Apennines, Italy, where recent exhumation has also exposed ancient examples at the surface, notably the Zuccale fault on Elba. Field-based and microstructural studies... Read More about Fault zone weakening and character of slip along low-angle normal faults: insights from the Zuccale fault, Elba, Italy.

Inclined transpression (2004)
Journal Article
Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Clegg, P., McCaffrey, K., & Tavarnelli, E. (2004). Inclined transpression. Journal of Structural Geology, 26(8), 1531-1548. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2004.01.004

Inclined transpression can be defined in terms of simultaneous contraction and strike-slip and dip-slip shearing, and is illustrated here using a strain triangle in which the apices represent the three strain components. Strain matrix modelling shows... Read More about Inclined transpression.

Intraplate strike-slip deformation belts. (2003)
Book Chapter
Storti, F., Holdsworth, R., & Salvini, F. (2003). Intraplate strike-slip deformation belts. In F. Storti, R. Holdsworth, & F. Salvini (Eds.), Intraplate Strike-Slip Deformation Belts (1-14). Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc

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