The term is used here to encompass not only contractional deformation but also ductile extension that followed immediately afterwards.
Figure 6 contains the graphical representation of the direct relationship between stress and strain for ductile material.
Fabrics within the amphibolites are emplacement-related ductile shear fabrics which are parallel to the fabrics along the base of the ophiolite.
Their bounding faults probably had a ductile detachment which was shallow because of earlier heating and magmatism.
To the southwest and west it is bounded by ductile-to-brittle shear belts and brittle faults.
Only limited evidence is preserved for ductile and brittle thrustsense movements along this portion of the fault zone.
Several brittle extensional micro-faults bear a ductile overprint expressed in the folding of both foliation and fault surfaces.
On the larger scale, observational studies of brittle and ductile deformation are included.
