Structural geology has emerged as an integrative, synthetic science in the past 50 years, focused on deciphering the history preserved in the rock record and determining the processes of rock deformation. Owing to the nature of structural geology, studies focus on historical elements, such as structural inheritance and tectonic history, and increasingly involve theoretical, process-based approa...

EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 10 August 2021Sec. Structural Geology and Tectonics https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2021.747669

Crevasse patterns are the writings in a glacier’s history book – the movement, strain and deformation frozen in ice. Therefore by analysis of crevasse patterns we can learn about the ice-dynamic processes which the glacier has experienced. Direct measurement of ice movement and deformation is time-consuming and costly, in particular for large glaciers; typically, observations are lacking when s...

EDITORIAL article Front. Earth Sci., 10 January 2023Sec. Structural Geology and Tectonics Volume - 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/feart.2022.1096643

Geological forces shape the earth’s crust. Normal faults, for example, form when extensional forces pull blocks of rock apart along a plane, whereas reverse faults are formed by compressional forces. Geologists classify faults to retrace the forces that have acted on an area; however, normal and reverse faults often look similar. In this study we investigated whether viewing superficially simil...