Significance of a hiatus in down-temperature fabric development within syntectonic quartz diorite complexes, Channel Islands, UK

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 127-138

  Tribe, Ian R ^a,b   D'Lemos, Richard S ^a  

^a OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Campus 2   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cadomian Orogeny; English Channel Islands; Microstructures; Quartz diorites; Syn tectonic processes

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DIORITE; HIATUS; PROTEROZOIC; ROCK FABRIC; SYNTECTONIC PLUTON;

UK, CHANNEL ISLANDS;

EID: 0029749888     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.153.1.0127     Document Type: Article

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