In-depth study of ductile shear zones of the Caledonide Mountains of Northern Sweden.
My research this summer was an in-depth study of ductile shear zones of the Caledonide Mountains of Northern Sweden. I studied hand samples collected by a past graduate student in the Tarfala Valley region of Northern Sweden. My focus was to look at the change in area of the plagioclase aggregates as they approached the shear zone. In the past, shear zones have only been looked at in two dimensions and the group that I was working with is trying to look at them in three dimensions. The common thought is that volume loss can be explained throughout the shear zones by chemical analysis, whereas we are tying to show that there is no volume loss due to a zero change in the volume of the aggregates. Sufficient results were not able to be returned in the shortness of the summer. Work in this area is going to be continued by the others that I worked with.