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3D characterization of fracture systems using Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an example from the Lewisian basement of NW Scotland (2015)
Book Chapter
Pless, J., McCaffrey, K., Jones, R., Holdsworth, R., Conway, A., & Krabbendam, M. (2015). 3D characterization of fracture systems using Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an example from the Lewisian basement of NW Scotland. In F. Richards, N. Richardson, S. Rippington, R. Wilson, & C. Bond (Eds.), Industrial structural geology : principles, techniques and integration (125-141). The Geological Society. https://doi.org/10.1144/sp421.14

Fractured gneiss lithologies form a basement-cored high, the Rona Ridge in the Faroe–Shetland Basin. Basement structures are known to play an important role in the petroleum system for the overlying giant Clair Field. An onshore analogue exposure in... Read More about 3D characterization of fracture systems using Terrestrial Laser Scanning: an example from the Lewisian basement of NW Scotland.

Do cataclastic deformation bands form parallel to lines of no finite elongation (LNFE) or zero extension directions? (2012)
Journal Article
Imber, J., Perry, T., Jones, R., & Wightman, R. (2012). Do cataclastic deformation bands form parallel to lines of no finite elongation (LNFE) or zero extension directions?. Journal of Structural Geology, 45, 158-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2012.09.004

Conjugate cataclastic deformation bands cut unconsolidated sand and gravel at McKinleyville, California, and dip shallowly towards the north-northeast and south-southwest. The acute dihedral angle between the two sets of deformation bands is 47° and... Read More about Do cataclastic deformation bands form parallel to lines of no finite elongation (LNFE) or zero extension directions?.

Integration of regional to outcrop digital data: 3D visualisation of multi-scale geological models (2009)
Journal Article
Jones, R., McCaffrey, K., Clegg, P., Wilson, R., Holliman, N., Holdsworth, R., …Waggott, S. (2009). Integration of regional to outcrop digital data: 3D visualisation of multi-scale geological models. Computers and Geosciences, 35(1), 4-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cageo.2007.09.007

Multi-scale geological models contain three-dimensional, spatially referenced data, typically spanning at least six orders of magnitude from outcrop to regional scale. A large number of different geological and geophysical data sources can be combine... Read More about Integration of regional to outcrop digital data: 3D visualisation of multi-scale geological models.

Numerical analysis of fold curvature using data acquired by high-precision GPS (2006)
Journal Article
Pearce, M., Jones, R., Smith, S., McCaffrey, K., & Clegg, P. (2006). Numerical analysis of fold curvature using data acquired by high-precision GPS. Journal of Structural Geology, 28(9), 1640-1646. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2006.05.010

The maximum, minimum, Gaussian, and mean curvatures of a folded bedding surface are calculated from a high resolution data set. These data were collected using real-time kinematic (RTK) GPS and processed using commercially available software. The cur... Read More about Numerical analysis of fold curvature using data acquired by high-precision GPS.

Complex fault patterns, transtension and structural segmentation of the Lofoten Ridge, Norwegian Margin: using digital mapping to link onshore and offshore geology (2006)
Journal Article
Wilson, R., McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Imber, J., Jones, R., Welbon, A., & Roberts, D. (2006). Complex fault patterns, transtension and structural segmentation of the Lofoten Ridge, Norwegian Margin: using digital mapping to link onshore and offshore geology. Tectonics, 25(4), https://doi.org/10.1029/2005tc001895

An integrated onshore-offshore study involving regional to outcrop-scale fault analysis is used to develop a self-consistent structural model for transtension along the Lofoten Ridge. The Lofoten-Vesterålen archipelago (LVA) is a segmented basement h... Read More about Complex fault patterns, transtension and structural segmentation of the Lofoten Ridge, Norwegian Margin: using digital mapping to link onshore and offshore geology.

Three-Dimensional Brittle Shear Fracturing by Tensile Crack Interaction. (2006)
Journal Article
Healy, D., Jones, R., & Holdsworth, R. (2006). Three-Dimensional Brittle Shear Fracturing by Tensile Crack Interaction. Nature, 439, 64-67. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04346

Faults in brittle rock are shear fractures formed through the interaction and coalescence of many tensile microcracks1,2,3. The geometry of these microcracks and their surrounding elastic stress fields control the orientation of the final shear fract... Read More about Three-Dimensional Brittle Shear Fracturing by Tensile Crack Interaction..

Recognition of strike-slip faulting from three-dimensional seismic reflection data: a study of late Cretaceous to early Teriary faulting on the Nyk High, Vøring Basin, offshore mid-Norway. (2005)
Journal Article
Imber, J., Holdsworth, R., McCaffrey, K., Wilson, R., Jones, R., England, R., & Freeman, S. (2005). Recognition of strike-slip faulting from three-dimensional seismic reflection data: a study of late Cretaceous to early Teriary faulting on the Nyk High, Vøring Basin, offshore mid-Norway. AAPG Bulletin, 89, 1043-1069

Towards the Virtual Outcrop. (2005)
Journal Article
Clegg, P., Trinks, I., McCaffrey, K., Holdsworth, R., Jones, R., Hobbs, R., & Waggott, S. (2005). Towards the Virtual Outcrop. Geoscientist, 15(1), 8-9

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.

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.

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.

Domainal deformation patterns and strain partitioning during transpression: an example from the Southern Uplands terrane, Scotland (2002)
Journal Article
Holdsworth, R., Tavarnelli, E., Clegg, P., Pinheiro, R., Jones, R., & McCaffrey, K. (2002). Domainal deformation patterns and strain partitioning during transpression: an example from the Southern Uplands terrane, Scotland. Journal of the Geological Society, 159(4), 401-415. https://doi.org/10.1144/0016-764901-123

The partitioning of deformation into wrench- and contraction-dominated deformation domains is a widely reported but poorly described phenomenon in ancient transpression zones. This paper documents spectacularly exposed examples of such partitioning f... Read More about Domainal deformation patterns and strain partitioning during transpression: an example from the Southern Uplands terrane, Scotland.

Oblique simple shear in transpression zones. (1998)
Book Chapter
Jones, R., & Holdsworth, R. (1998). Oblique simple shear in transpression zones. In R. Holdsworth, R. Strachan, & J. (. Dewey (Eds.), Continental Transpressional and Transtensional Tectonics (35-40). Spec. Publ. Geol. Soc