This is a list of the named shear zones affecting the rocks of
Great Britain
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and the
Isle of Man
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. See the
main article on shear for a fuller treatment of shear in rocks.
Key to tables
*Column 1 indicates the name of the shear zone. Note that different authors may use different names for the same shear zone or a section of it.
*Column 2 indicates the OS grid reference of the approximate midpoint of certain shear zones. Note that the mapped extent of a shear zone may not accurately reflect its actual extent.
*Column 3 indicates the
country
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in which the shear zone occurs.
*Column 4 indicates the
county
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in which the shear zone occurs. Some traverse two or more counties of course.
*Column 5 indicates on which sheet, if any, of the
British Geological Survey
The British Geological Survey (BGS) is a partly publicly funded body which aims to advance geoscientific knowledge of the United Kingdom landmass and its continental shelf by means of systematic surveying, monitoring and research.
The BGS h ...
's 1:50,000 / 1" scale geological map series of England and Wales (E&W) or of Scotland (Sc), the shear zone is shown and named (either on map/s or cross-section/s or both). A handful of BGS maps at other scales are listed too.
*Column 6 indicates a selection of publications in which references to the shear zone may be found. See references section for full details of publication.
Tabulated list of shear zones
References
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See also
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List of geological faults of Scotland
This is a list of the named geological faults in Scotland. See the main article on faults for a fuller treatment of fault types and nomenclature but in brief, the main types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts, thrust faults or slides and s ...
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List of geological faults of Wales
This is a list of the named geological faults affecting the rocks of Wales. See the main article on faults for a fuller treatment of fault types and nomenclature but in brief, the main types are normal faults, reverse faults, thrusts or thrust fa ...
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List of geological folds in Great Britain
This is a list of the named geological folds affecting the rocks of Great Britain and the Isle of Man.
Terminology
See the main article on folds for a fuller treatment of fold types and nomenclature but in brief, an anticline is an arch-like fol ...
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Geological structure of Great Britain
The geological structure of Great Britain is complex, resulting as it does from a long and varied geological history spanning more than two billion years. This piece of the Earth's crust has experienced several episodes of mountain building or ' ...
Geology of Scotland
Geology of Wales
Shear zones
image:boudin_vein.jpg, Boudinaged quartz vein (with strain fringe) showing ''Fault (geology), sinistral shear sense'', Starlight Pit, Fortnum Gold Mine, Western Australia
In geology, shear is the response of a rock to Deformation (engineering), ...
Structural geology