Abyssal peridotite mylonites: Implications for grain-size sensitive flow and strain localization in the oceanic lithosphere

Tectonophysics

Volumn 256, Issue 1-4 SPEC. ISS., 1996, Pages 17-37

  Jaroslow, G E ^a   Hirth, G ^a   Dick, H J B ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATACLASIS; DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION CREEP; DISLOCATION CREEP; DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN SIZE; MID OCEAN RIDGE; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; MYLONITE; MYLONITES; PERIDOTITE;

EID: 0029729324     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0040-1951(95)00163-8     Document Type: Article

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