Dislocation Glide
http://courses.eas.ualberta.ca/eas421/lecturepages/microstructurediags.html#edgedislocations

The School of Geosciences at Monash University

This animation from Monash University shows the process of dislocation glide in two dimensions. The animation shows what it would look like if we could zoom in on a single grain of sand, down to the scale of individual atoms.

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Part of the Cutting Edge collection. The NAGT/DLESE On the Cutting Edge project helps geoscience faculty stay up-to-date with both geoscience research and teaching methods.

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• Cutting Edge:Courses:Structural Geology and Tectonics:Visualizations: Microstructures and Fabric

Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Microstructures, Deformation Mechanisms, Fabrics, Modeling Structural Processes, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology
Resource Type: Audio/Visual:Animations/Video
Theme: Teach the Earth:Course Topics:Structural Geology