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Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R., Krabendam, M. and Strachan R. (editors) in press. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London Special Publications. Publication scheduled for 2010; 32 manuscripts accepted at 04/09.
Law, R.D., Searle, M.P. and Godin, L. (editors) 2006. Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones. Geological Society of London Special Publications, No 268, 632 pp. ISBN: 978-1-86239-209-0.
Papers - in review:
Law, R.D. and Johnson, M.R.W. in review. Microstructures and crystal fabrics of the Moine thrust zone: history of research and changing tectonic interpretations. In: Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R., Krabendam, M. and Strachan R. (editors) in press. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London Special Publications.
Lloyd, G.E., Law, R.D. and Mainprice, D.H. in review. A new look at an old quartzite: The Stack of Glencoul quartz mylonite. In: Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R., Krabendam, M. and Strachan R. (editors) in press. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London Special Publications.
Frassi, C., Carosi, R., Montomoli, C. and Law, R.D. in review. Kinematics and vorticity of flow associated with post-collisional transpression in the Variscan Axial Zone of northern Sardinia (Italy). Tectonophysics.
de Saint Blanquat., M., Halbert, G., Horsman, E., Law, R.D., Morgan, S., Tikoff, B. and Vanderhaeghe, O. in review. Magmatic pulsing, duration of pluton construction and the paradoxical relationship between tectonism and plutonism. Tectonophysics
Papers - in press / published:
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Law, R.D., Mainprice, D.H., Casey, M., Lloyd, G.E., Knipe, R.J., Cook, B. and Thigpen, J.R. in press Moine thrust zone mylonites at the Stack of Glencoul: I - microstructures, strain and influence of recrystallization on quartz crystal fabric development. In: Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R., Krabendam, M. and Strachan R. (editors) in press. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London Special Publications. |
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Law, R.D. in press. Moine thrust zone mylonites at the Stack of Glencoul: II - results of vorticity analyses and their tectonic significance. In: Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R., Krabendam, M. and Strachan R. (editors) in press. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London Special Publications |
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Thigpen, J.R., Law, R.D., Lloyd, G.E., Brown, S. and Cook, B. in press. Deformation temperatures, vorticity of flow and strain symmetry in the Loch Eriboll region, NW Scotland: Implications for the kinematic and structural evolution of the northernmost Moine thrust. In: Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R., Krabendam, M. and Strachan R. (editors) in press. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London Special Publications. |
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Searle, M.P., Law, R.D., Dewey, J.F. and Streule, M.J. in press. Relationships between the Loch Ailsh and Borralan alkaline intrusions and thrusting in the Moine Thrust zone, southern Assynt culmination, NW Scotland. In: Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R., Krabendam, M. and Strachan R. (editors) in press. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London Special Publications. |
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Streule, M.J., Strachan, R.A., Searle, M.P. and Law, R.D. in press. Comparing Tibet-Himalayan and Caledonian crustal architecture, evolution and mountain building processes. In: Law, R.D., Butler, R.W.H., Holdsworth, R., Krabendam, M. and Strachan R. (editors) in press. Continental Tectonics and Mountain Building: The Legacy of Peach and Horne. Geological Society of London Special Publications. |
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Jessup, M.J., Searle, M.P., Cottle, J.M., Law, R.D., Newall, D.L., Tracy, R.J. and Waters, D.J. 2008. P-T-t-D paths of Everest schist, Nepal. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 23, 717-739. doi:10.1111/j.1525-1314.2008.00784.x. |
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Searle, M.P., Law, R.D., Godin, L., Larson, K.P., Streule, M.J., Cottle, J.M. and Jessup, M.J. 2008. Defining the Himalayan Main Central Thrust in Nepal. Journal of the Geological Society of London, 165, 523-534. |
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Cottle, J.M., Jessup, M.J., Newall, D.L., Searle, M.P., Law, R.D. and Horstwood, M.S. 2007. Structural insights into the early stages of exhumation along an orogen-scale detachment: the South Tibetan Detachment System, Dzakaa Chu section, Eastern Himalaya. Journal of Structural Geology, 29, 1781-1797. doi:10.1016/j.jsg.2007.08.007. |
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Treloar, P.J., Vince, K.J. and Law, R.D. 2007. Two-phase exhumation of ultra-high pressure and medium pressure Indian Plate rocks from the Pakistan Himalaya. In: Ries, A.C, Butler, R.W.H. and Graham, R.H. (eds.), Deformation of the Continental Crust: The Legacy of Mike Coward. Geological Society of London Special Publications, 272, 155-185. |
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Sullivan, W.A. and Law, R.D. 2007. Deformation path partitioning within the transpressional White Mountain shear zone, California and Nevada. Journal of Structural Geology, 583-598. |
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Jessup, M., Law, R.D. and Frassi, C. 2007. The Rigid Grain Net (RGN): a new method for estimating mean kinematic vorticity. Journal of Structural Geology, 29, 411-421. |
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Jessup, M., Law, R.D., Searle, M.P. and Hubbard, M. 2006. Structural evolution and vorticity of flow during extrusion and exhumation of the Greater Himalayan Slab, Mount Everest Massif, Tibet/Nepal: implications for orogen-scale flow partitioning. In: Law, R.D., Searle, M.P and Godin, L. (eds) Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 268, 379-413. |
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Searle, M.P., Law, R.D. and Jessup, M. 2006. Crustal structure, restoration and evolution of the Greater Himalaya in Nepal - Tibet: implications for channel flow and ductile extrusion of the middle crust. In: Law, R.D., Searle, M.P and Godin, L. (eds.), Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 268, 355-378. |
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Godin, L., Grujic, D., Law, R.D. and Searle, M.P. 2006. Channel flow, extrusion and exhumation in continental collision zones: an introduction. In: Law, R.D., Searle, M.P and Godin, L. (eds) Channel Flow, Ductile Extrusion and Exhumation in Continental Collision Zones. Geological Society of London Special Publication, 268, 1-23. |
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Maynard, J., Eriksson, K. and Law, R.D. 2006. The Upper Mississippian Bluefield Formation in the central Appalachian basin: a hierarchical sequence stratigraphic record of a greenhouse to icehouse transition. Sedimentary Geology, 192, 99-122. doi:10.1016/j.sedgeo.2006.03.027. |
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Morgan, S.S. and Law, R.D. 2004. Unusual transition in quartzite dislocation creep regimes and crystal slip systems in the aureole of the EJB pluton, California: a case for anhydrous conditions created by decarbonation of adjacent marbles. Tectonophysics, 384, 209-231. |
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Law, R.D., Searle, M.P. and Simpson, R.L. 2004. Strain, deformation temperatures and vorticity of flow at the top of the Greater Himalayan Slab, Everest Massif, Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 161, 305-320. |
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Searle, M.P., Simpson, R.L., Law, R.D., Parrish, R.R. and Waters, D.J. 2003. The structural geometry, metamorphic and magmatic evolution of the Everest massif, High Himalaya of Nepal - South Tibet. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 160, 345-366. |
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Simpson, C., Law, R.D., Gromet, P., Miro, R. and Northrup, C.J. 2003. Paleozoic deformation in the Sierras de Córdoba and Sierra de las Minas, Eastern Sierra Pampeanas, Argentina. Journal of South American Earth Sciences, 15, 749-764. |
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Searle, M.P., Simpson, R.L., Law, R.D., Waters, D.J. and Parrish, R.R. 2002. Quantifying displacement on the South Tibetan Detachment normal fault, Everest massif, and the timing of crustal thickening and uplift in the Himalaya and South Tibet. Journal of Nepal Geological Society, 26, 1-6. |
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Saint Blanquat, M., Law, R.D., Bouchez, J.L., and Morgan, S.S. 2001. Internal structure and emplacement of the Papoose Flat pluton: an integrated structural, petrographic and magnetic susceptibility study. Bulletin Geological Society of America 113, 976-995; plus GSA Data Repository item 2001078, 18 pp. |
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O'Brien, P.J., Zotov, N., Law, R.D., Khan, M.A. and Jan, Q. 2001. Coesite in Himalayan eclogite and implications for models of India-Asia collision. Geology, 29, 435-438. |
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Law, R.D., Eriksson, K. and Davisson, C. 2001. Formation, evolution and inversion of the Middle Tertiary Diligencia Basin, Orocopia Mountains, southern California. Bulletin Geological Society of America, 113, 196-221. |
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Vines, J.A. and Law, R.D. 2000. Emplacement of the Santa Rita Flat pluton as a pluton-scale saddle reef. Geology, 28, 1115-1118. |
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Vines, J.A. and Law, R.D. 2001. Emplacement of the Santa Rita Flat pluton as a pluton-scale saddle reef: Comment and Reply. Geology, 29, 1157-1158; plus GSA Data Repository item 2001132, 3pp. |
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Morgan, S.S., Law, R.D., and Saint Blanquat, M. 2000. Papoose Flat, EJB and Sage Hen Flat plutons: Examples of rising, sinking and cookie-cutter plutons in the White-Inyo Range, eastern California. In: Great Basin and Sierra Nevada (edited by D.R. Lageson, S.G. Peters and M. Lahren). Geological Society of America Field Guide, No. 2, 189-204. |
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Sachan, H.H., Bodnar. R.J., Islam, R. Szabó, Cs. and Law, R.D. 1999. Exhumation history of eclogites from the Tso-Morari Crystalline Complex in eastern Ladakh: Mineralogical and fluid inclusion constraints. Journal of the Geological Society of India, 30, no. 2, 181-190. |
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Law, R.D. 1998. Quartz mylonites from the Moine thrust zone in southern Assynt, Northwest Scotland. In: 'Fault - Related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas' (edited by A.W. Snoke, J. Tullis and V.R. Todd), Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, p. 494-495. |
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Law, R.D. 1998. Quartz mylonites from the Moine thrust zone at the Stack of Glencoul, Northwest Scotland. In: 'Fault - Related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas' (edited by A.W. Snoke, J. Tullis and V.R. Todd), Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, p. 490-493. |
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Law, R.D. 1998. Oblique grain shape fabrics in a mylonitic quartz vein. In: 'Fault - Related Rocks: A Photographic Atlas' (edited by A.W. Snoke, J. Tullis and V.R. Todd), Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, p. 264-265. |
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Simpson, C., Law, R.D., Northrup, C.J. and Martino, R.D. 1998. Crustal shortening of the Cambrian Arc and post-metamorphic shear zones in the Sierras Pampeanas. Actas, 10th Congreso Latinoamericano de Geología y 6th Congreso Nacional de Geología Económica, Buenos Aires, vol. 2, p. 394-399. |
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Morgan, S.S., Law, R.D. and St Blanquat, M. 1998. Aureole deformation associated with inflation of the concordant Eureka Valley-Joshua Flat-Beer Creek composite pluton, central White-Inyo Range, eastern California. In: Behl, R. (ed.) Geological Society of America, 94th Annual Meeting of Cordilleran Section, 1998 Field Guidebook, p. 5.1 - 5.30. |
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Morgan, S.S. and Law, R.D. 1998. An overview of Paleozoic - Mesozoic age structures developed in the central White-Inyo Range, eastern California. International Geology Review, 40, 245 - 256. Also published in: Ernst, W.G. and Nelson, C.A. (eds.) Integrated Earth and Environmental Evolution of the Southwestern United States - The Clarence A. Hall, Jr. Volume, pp. 161-173. Bellwether Publishing, Ltd. for Geological Society of America, 502 pp. |
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Morgan, S.S., Law, R.D. and Nyman, M.W. 1998. Laccolith-like emplacement model for the Papoose Flat pluton based on porphyroblast-matrix analysis. Geological Society of America Bulletin, 110, 96-110. |
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Nyman, M.W., Law, R.D. and Morgan, S.S. (1995) Conditions of contact metamorphism, Papoose Flat Pluton, eastern California, USA: implications for cooling and strain histories. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 13, 627-643. |
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Law, R.D., Pope, M.C., Wirgart, R.H., Eriksson, K.A., Robinson, E.S., Sayer, S, Phinney, E.J. and Bollinger, G.A. 1994. Geologically recent near-surface faulting and folding in Giles County, southwest Virginia: new exposures of extensional and apparent reverse faults in alluvial sediments between Pembroke and Pearisburg. Proceedings of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Twenty-First Water Reactor Safety Information Meeting, NUREG/CP-0133, Vol. 3, 415- 432. |
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Law, R.D., Miller, E.L., Little, T.A. and Lee, J. 1994. Extensional origin of ductile fabrics in the Schist Belt, Central Brooks Range, Alaska. Part 2: microstructural and petrofabric evidence. Journal of Structural Geology, 16, 919 - 940. |
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Little, T.A., Miller, E.L., Lee, J. and Law, R.D. 1994. Extensional origin of ductile fabrics in the Schist Belt, Central Brooks Range, Alaska. Part 1: geologic and structural studies. Journal of Structural Geology, 16, 899 - 918. |
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Law, R.D., Sylvester, A.G., Nelson, C.A., Morgan, S.S. and Nyman, M. 1993. Deformation associated with emplacement of the Papoose Flat pluton, Inyo Mountains, eastern California: Geologic Overview and Fieldguide. In: Lahren, M.M., Trexler, J.H. Jr. and Spinosa, C. (eds.) Crustal Evolution of the Great Basin and Sierra Nevada: Cordilleran - Rocky Mountain Sections, Geological Society of America Guidebook, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Nevada, Reno, 231-262. |
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Lloyd, G.E., Law, R.D., Mainprice, D. and Wheeler, J. 1992. Microstructural and crystal fabric evolution during shear zone formation. Journal of Structural Geology, 14, 1079 - 1100. |
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Law, R.D., Morgan, S..M., Casey, M., Sylvester, A.G. and Nyman, M. 1992. The Papoose Flat pluton of eastern California: a reassessment of its emplacement history in the light of new microstructural and crystallographic fabric observations. Transactions Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 83, 361 - 375. 2nd Hutton Conference on the Origin of Granites. Conference volume also published as Geological Society of America - Special Paper 272. |
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Nyman, M.W., Law, R.D. and Smelik, E.A. 1992. Cataclastic deformation mechanism for the development of core - mantle structures in amphibole. Geology, 20, 455 - 458. |
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Lloyd, G.E., Schmidt, N.H., Mainprice, D.H., Olesen, N.H., Law, R.D. and Casey, M. 1991. Textural determination via SEM electron channeling. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Textures of Materials, Avignon, France (edited by H.J. Bunge, R. Penelle and C. Essling). Textures and Microstructures, Vols. 14-18, 213 - 218. |
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Lloyd, G.E., Mainprice, D., Law, R.D. and Wheeler, J. 1991. Micromechanics of formation of a quartzo-feldspathic shear zone. Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Textures of Materials, Avignon, France (edited by H.J. Bunge, R. Penelle and C. Essling). Textures and Microstructures, Vols. 14-18, 333 - 338. |
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Hadizadeh, J. and Law, R.D. 1991. Water-weakening of sandstone and quartzite deformed at various stress and strain rates. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Science & Geomechanical Abstracts, 28, 431 - 440. |
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Law, R.D. 1990. Crystallographic fabrics: a selective review of their applications to research in structural geology. In: Knipe, R.J. and Rutter, E.H. (editors), Deformation Mechanisms, Rheology and Tectonics. Geological Society of London Special Publications, No. 54, 335-352. |
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Law, R.D., Schmid, S.M. and Wheeler, J. 1990. Simple shear deformation and quartz crystallographic fabrics: a possible natural example from the Torridon area of NW Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology, 12, 29 - 45. |
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Sheets, R.W., Ausburn, K., Bodnar, R.J., Craig, J.R. and Law, R.D. 1989. Geology and precious metal mineralization at the Morning Star Deposit, San Bernadino County, California. In: California Desert Mineral Symposium, Special Publication, United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, California State Office, Sacramento, California, pp. 219 - 231. |
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Prior, D.J., Knipe. R.J., Bates, M.P., Grant, N.T., Law, R.D., Lloyd, G.E., Welbon, A., Agar, S.M., Brodie, K.H., Maddock, R.H., Rutter, E.H., White, S.H., Bell, T.H., Ferguson, C.C. and Wheeler, J. 1987. Orientation of specimens: essential data for all fields of geology. Geology, 15, 829-831. |
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Law, R.D. 1987. Heterogeneous deformation and quartz crystallographic fabric transitions: natural examples from the Moine thrust zone at the Stack of Glencoul, northern Assynt. Journal of Structural Geology, 9, 819-833. |
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Law, R.D. 1987. Conference Report: Crystallographic Fabrics and Deformation Histories. Journal of the Geological Society, London, 144, 675-678. |
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Law, R.D. and Potts, G.J. 1987. The Tarskavaig Nappe of Skye, NW Scotland: a re-examination of the fabrics and their kinematic significance. Geological Magazine, 124, 231-248. |
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Lloyd, G.E., Ferguson, C.C. and Law, R.D. 1987. Discriminatory petrofabric analysis of quartz rock using S.E.M. Electron Channeling. Tectonophysics, 135, 243-249. |
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Lloyd, G.E., Law, R.D. and Schmid, S.M. 1987. A spherical electron channeling pattern map for quartz petrofabric analysis: correction and verification. Journal of Structural Geology, 9, 251-254. |
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Knipe, R.J. and Law, R.D. 1987. The influence of crystallographic orientation and grain boundary migration on microstructural and textural development in a S-C mylonite. Tectonophysics, 135, 155-169. |
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Law, R.D., Casey, M. and Knipe, R.J. 1986. Kinematic and tectonic significance of microstructures and crystallographic fabrics within quartz mylonites from the Assynt and Eriboll regions of the Moine thrust zone, NW Scotland. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences, 77, 99-126. |
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Law, R.D. 1986. Relationships between strain and quartz crystallographic fabrics in the Roche Maurice Quartzites of Plougastel, western Brittany. Journal of Structural Geology, 8, 493-516. |
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Law, R.D., Knipe, R.J. and Dayan, H. 1984. Strain path partitioning within thrust sheets: microstructural and petrofabric evidence from the Moine thrust zone at Loch Eriboll, NW Scotland. Journal of Structural Geology, 6, 477-497. |
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Law, R.D. and Rutter, E.H. 1978. Influence of interstitial water on the Brittle Failure of Pennant Sandstone. In: Progress in Experimental Petrology, Vol. 4 (edited by W.S. McKenzie), Part 6, Reports on the Activities of Imperial College Experimental Deformation Laboratories. Natural Environment Research Council Publication D, No. 11, p. 279-280. |
Non-Confidential Reports
Law, R.D. and Robinson, E.S. (1999) Sub-surface investigation of
geologically-recent near surface faulting and folding in the Valley & Ridge
Province of southwest Virginia. Final Report to U.S. Nuclear Regulatory
Commission on Project NRC-04-94-102, 194 pp. |