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• Using laterally compatible cross sections to infer fault growth and linkage models in foreland thrust belts

  Watkins, H., Butler, R. W. H. & Bond, C. E., Mar 2017, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 96, p. 102-117 16 p.

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  • growth fault
  • thrust
  • cross section
  • fold
  • transfer zone
  13 Citations (Scopus)

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• Untangling the Annot sand fairway: structure and stratigraphy of the Eastern Champsaur Basin (Eocene-Oligocene), French Alps

  Butler, R. W. H., Lickorish, H. W., Vinnels, J. & McCaffrey, W. D., Nov 2020, In: Journal of the Geological Society . 177, 6, p. 1197-1209 12 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Oligocene
  • Eocene
  • stratigraphy
  • allochthon
  • fold

• Tracking sand-fairways through a deformed turbidite system: the Numidian (Miocene) of Central Sicily, Italy

  Pinter, P. R., Butler, R. W. H., Hartley, A. J., Maniscalco, R., Baldassini, N. & Di Stefano, A., Jun 2018, In: Basin Research. 30, 3, p. 480-501 20 p.

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  • turbidite
  • Miocene
  • deep water
  • nanofossil
  • turbidity current
  7 Citations (Scopus)

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• The Numidian of Sicily revisited: a thrust-influenced confined turbidite system

  Pinter, P. R., Butler, R. W. H., Hartley, A. J., Maniscalco, R., Baldassini, N. & Di Stefano, A., 1 Dec 2016, In: Marine and Petroleum Geology. 78, p. 291-311 21 p.

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  • Sicily
  • thrust
  • turbidite
  • stratigraphy
  • outcrops
  11 Citations (Scopus)

  18 Downloads (Pure)

• The mode of deformation in the orogenic mid-crust revealed by seismic attribute analysis

  Torvela, T., Moreau, J., Butler, R. W. H., Korja, A. & Heikkinen, P., Apr 2013, In: Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems . 14, 4, p. 1069-1086 18 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • crusts
  • crust
  • attribute
  • fabric
  • lower crust
  14 Citations (Scopus)

  6 Downloads (Pure)

• The importance of structural model availability on seismic interpretation

  Alcalde, J., Bond, C. E., Johnson, G., Butler, R. W. H., Cooper, M. A. & Ellis, J. F., Apr 2017, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 97, p. 161-171 11 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • textbook
  • geometry
  • student
  • teaching material
  • seismic data
  14 Citations (Scopus)

  10 Downloads (Pure)

• The competition between rates of deformation and solidification in syn-kinematic granitic intrusions: Resolving the pegmatite paradox

  Butler, R. W. H. & Torvela, T., 1 Dec 2018, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 117, p. 1-13 13 p.

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  • pegmatite
  • solidification
  • kinematics
  • crystallization
  • melt
  5 Citations (Scopus)

  4 Downloads (Pure)

• Structural validation as an input into seismic depth conversion to decrease assigned structural uncertainty

  Totake, Y., Butler, R. W. H. & Bond, C. E., Feb 2017, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 95, p. 32-47 16 p.

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  • strain analysis
  • seismic reflection
  • kinematics
  • thrust
  • incorporation
  10 Citations (Scopus)

  10 Downloads (Pure)

• Stress, faulting, fracturing and seismicity: the legacy of Ernest Masson Anderson

  Healy, D., Butler, R. W. H., Shipton, Z. K. & Sibson, R., 2012, Faulting, Fracturing and Igneous Intrusion in the Earth's Crust. Healy, D., Butler, R., Shipton, Z. & Sibson, R. (eds.). Geological Society of London, Vol. 367. p. 1-6 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

  • seismicity
  • faulting
  • structural geology
  • volcanology
  • seismotectonics
  9 Citations (Scopus)

• Stratigraphic variations control deformation patterns in evaporite basins: Messinian examples, onshore and offshore Sicily (Italy)

  Butler, R. W. H., Maniscalco, R., Sturiale, G. & Grasso, M., Jan 2015, In: Journal of the Geological Society . 172, 1, p. 113– 124 12 p.

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  • Messinian
  • evaporite
  • fold
  • wavelength
  • basin
  19 Citations (Scopus)

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• Shallow erosion beneath turbidity currents and its impact on the architectural development of turbidite sheet systems

  Eggenhuisen, J. T., McCaffrey, W. D., Haughton, P. D. W. & Butler, R. W. H., Jun 2011, In: Sedimentology. 58, 4, p. 936-959 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • turbidity current
  • turbidite
  • scour
  • erosion
  • sandstone
  31 Citations (Scopus)

• Seismic imaging of thrust faults and structural damage: a visualization workflow for deepwater thrust belts

  Iacopini, D., Butler, R. W. H. & Purves, S., 2012, In: First Break. 5, 30, p. 39-46 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  15 Citations (Scopus)

• Raman Spectroscopy: an effective thermal marker in low temperature carbonaceous fold-thrust belts

  Muirhead, D. K., Bond, C. E., Watkins, H., Butler, R. W. H., Schito, A., Crawford, Z. & Marpino, A., 2020, In: Geological Society Special Publications . 490, 1, p. 135-151 17 p.

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  • Raman spectroscopy
  • maturation
  • thrust
  • marker
  • fold
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Platform-basin transitions and their role in Alpine-style collision systems: a comparative approach

  Bell, C. & Butler, R. W. H., Jun 2017, In: Swiss Journal of Geosciences. 110, 2, p. 535-546 12 p.

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  • collision
  • transition
  • basin
  • orogenic belt
  • inversion tectonics
  2 Citations (Scopus)

  6 Downloads (Pure)

• Photograph of the month: Large-scale basement-cover deformation in the alps

  Butler, R. W. H., Jul 2013, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 52, p. 1-1 1 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Comment/debate › peer-review

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• LiDAR, UAV or compass-clinometer? Accuracy, coverage and the effects on structural models

  Cawood, A. J., Bond, C. E., Howell, J. A., Butler, R. W. H. & Totake, Y., May 2017, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 98, p. 67-82 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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  • outcrop
  • structural analysis
  • detection
  • prediction
  • bedding plane
  74 Citations (Scopus)

  92 Downloads (Pure)

• Inversion structures in a foreland domain: Seismic examples from the Italian Adriatic Sea

  Pace, P., Scisciani, V., Calamita, F., Butler, R. W. H., Iacopini, D., Esestime, P. & Hodgson, N., Nov 2015, In: Interpretation. 3, 4, p. SAA161-SAA176 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • Adriatic Sea
  • inversions
  • inversion
  • anticlines
  • sea
  10 Citations (Scopus)

• Interpreting syndepositional sediment remobilization and deformation beneath submarine gravity flows: a kinematic boundary layer approach

  Butler, R. W. H., Eggenhuisen, J. T., Haughton, P. & McCaffrey, W. D., Jan 2016, In: Journal of the Geological Society . 173, 1, p. 46-58 13 p.

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  • gravity flow
  • remobilization
  • kinematics
  • boundary layer
  • slumping
  19 Citations (Scopus)

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• Interpreting structural geometry in fold-thrust belts: Why style matters

  Butler, R. W. H., Bond, C. E., Cooper, M. A. & Watkins, H., Sep 2018, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 114, p. 251-273 23 p.

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  • thrust
  • fold
  • geometry
  • fault propagation
  • fold belt
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  6 Downloads (Pure)

• Influence of structural position on fracture networks in the Torridon Group, Achnashellach fold and thrust belt, NW Scotland

  Watkins, H., Butler, R. W. H., Bond, C. E. & Healy, D., May 2015, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 74, p. 64-80 17 p.

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  • fold and thrust belt
  • fracture network
  • curvature
  • fold
  • lithology
  35 Citations (Scopus)

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• Implications of heterogeneous fracture distribution on reservoir quality; an analogue from the Torridon Group sandstone, Moine Thrust Belt, NW Scotland

  Watkins, H., Healy, D., Bond, C. E. & Butler, R. W. H., Mar 2018, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 108, p. 180-197 18 p.

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  • thrust
  • sandstone
  • distribution
  • fold
  • curvature
  21 Citations (Scopus)

  11 Downloads (Pure)

• Impact of seismic image quality on fault interpretation uncertainty

  Alcalde, J., Bond, C. E., Johnson, G., Ellis, J. F. & Butler, R. W. H., Feb 2017, In: GSA Today. 27, 2, p. 4-10 7 p.

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  • fault geometry
  • heave
  • image analysis
  • tectonics
  • prediction
  12 Citations (Scopus)

  12 Downloads (Pure)

• Imaging thrust and fault zones using 3D seismic image processing techniques

  Iacopini, D., Butler, R. W. H. & Purves, S., 1 Jan 2015, In: Rendiconti Online Societa Geologica Italiana. 22, p. 112-114 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • image processing
  • fault zone
  • thrust
  • seismic data
  • deep water

• Imaging deformation in submarine thrust belts using seismic attributes

  Iacopini, D. & Butler, R. W. H., 1 Feb 2011, In: Earth and Planetary Science Letters. 302, 3-4, p. 414-422 9 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • thrust
  • Imaging techniques
  • attribute
  • disturbances
  • thrust fault
  36 Citations (Scopus)

• Hutton’s Arse: 3 billion years of extraordinary geology in Scotland’s Northern Highlands (second edition) by Malcolm Rider and Peter Harrison, Dunedin Academic Press, Edinburgh (2019), x+226 pp., Pbk., ISBN: 9781780460406. £19.99

  Butler, R., 7 Jan 2020, (Accepted/In press) In: Proceedings of the Geologists' Association.

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  • Earth science
  • book
  • student
  • geology
  • science

• Henry Cadell’s Experimental Researches in Mountain Building: their lessons for interpreting thrust systems and fold-thrust structures

  Butler, R. W. H., Bond, C. E. & Cooper, M. A., 2020, In: Geological Society Special Publications . 490, p. 9-31 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • thrust
  • fold
  • mountain
  • Experiments
  • experiment
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• Geochronological challenges posed by continuously developing tectonometamorphic systems: insights from Rb–Sr mica ages from the Cycladic Blueschist Belt, Syros (Greece)

  Cliff, R. A., Bond, C. E., Butler, R. W. H. & Dixon, J. E., Feb 2017, In: Journal of Metamorphic Geology. 35, 2, p. 197-211 15 p.

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  • mica
  • blueschist
  • Tectonics
  • blueschist facies
  • phengite
  13 Citations (Scopus)

  10 Downloads (Pure)

• From hot to cold - The temperature dependence on rock deformation processes: An introduction

  Gomez-Rivas, E., Butler, R. W. H., Healy, D. & Alsop, I., Mar 2020, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 132, 9 p., 103977.

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  • cold
  • rock
  • deformation mechanism
  • temperature
  • rheology
  1 Citation (Scopus)

• From crystal to crustal: petrofabric-derived seismic modelling of regional tectonics

  Lloyd, G. E., Halliday, J., Butler, R. W. H., Casey, M., Kendall, J-M., Wookey, J. & Mainprice, D., 2011, In: Geological Society Special Publications . 360, p. 49-78 29 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • petrofabric
  • Tectonics
  • Crystals
  • anisotropy
  • preferred orientation
  17 Citations (Scopus)

• Fold and thrust belts: structural style, evolution and exploration – an introduction

  Hammerstein, J. A., Di Cuia, R., Cottam, M. A., Zamora, G. & Butler, R. W. H., 2020, In: Geological Society Special Publications . 490, p. 1-8 8 p.

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  • fold and thrust belt
  • structural geology
  • hydrocarbon exploration
  • Structural geology
  • Caledonian orogeny
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• Exploring the seismic expression of fault zones in 3D seismic volumes

  Iacopini, D., Butler, R. W. H., Purves, S., McArdle, N. & De Freslon, N., Aug 2016, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 89, p. 54-73 20 p.

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  • fault zone
  • disturbance
  • seismic data
  • attribute
  • footprint
  25 Citations (Scopus)

  8 Downloads (Pure)

• Entrained sand generates fault plane reflections on a deep-water thrust zone

  Totake, Y., Butler, R. W. H., Bond, C. E., Tokunaga, H. & Aziz, A., 1 Dec 2018, In: Geology. 46, 12, p. 1039-1042 4 p.

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  • fault plane
  • thrust
  • deep water
  • sandstone
  • fluid pressure
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• Destructive sampling ethics

  Butler, R., 29 Oct 2015, In: Nature Geoscience. 8, 11, p. 817-818 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • ethics
  • legislation
  • outcrop
  • code
  • science
  3 Citations (Scopus)

• Deep-water sand-fairway mapping as a tool for tectonic restoration: decoding Miocene central Mediterranean palaeogeography using the Numidian turbidites of southern Italy

  Butler, R. W. H., Pinter, P. R., Maniscalco, R. & Hartley, A. J., Jul 2020, In: Journal of the Geological Society . 177, 4, p. 766-783 18 p.

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  • turbidite
  • deep water
  • Miocene
  • restoration
  • tectonics
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• Constraints on the seismic properties of the middle and lower continental crust

  Lloyd, G. E., Butler, R. W. H., Casey, M., Tatham, D. J. & Mainprice, D., 2011, In: Geological Society Special Publications . 360, p. 7-32 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • seismic property
  • lower crust
  • continental crust
  • fabric
  • preferred orientation
  42 Citations (Scopus)

• Basement-cover tectonics, structural inheritance, and deformation migration in the outer parts of orogenic belts: A view from the western Alps

  Butler, R. W. H., 11 Sep 2017, Linkages and Feedbacks in Orogenic Systems. Law, R. D., Thigpen, J. R., Merschat, A. J. & Stowell, H. H. (eds.). Geological Society of America, p. 55-74 20 p. (GSA Memoirs; vol. 213).

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  • orogenic belt
  • tectonics
  • subduction
  • crustal shortening
  • basin
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• Area balancing as a test of models for the deep structure of mountain belts, with specific reference to the Alps

  Butler, R. W. H., Jul 2013, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 52, p. 2-16 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

  • crust
  • mountain
  • restoration
  • lower crust
  • subduction
  22 Citations (Scopus)

• Appraisal of fracture sampling methods and a new workflow to characterise heterogeneous fracturing at outcrop

  Watkins, H., Bond, C. E., Healy, D. & Butler, R. W. H., Mar 2015, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 72, p. 67-82 16 p.

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  • appraisal
  • outcrop
  • sampling
  • fracture network
  • attribute
  64 Citations (Scopus)

  22 Downloads (Pure)

• Analyzing structural variations along strike in a deep-water thrust belt

  Totake, Y., Butler, R. W. H., Bond, C. E. & Aziz, A., Mar 2018, In: Journal of Structural Geology. 108, p. 213-229 17 p.

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  • thrust
  • deep water
  • fold
  • heave
  • train
  17 Citations (Scopus)

  10 Downloads (Pure)