Strain localization and large-scale block rotation in the lower continental crust, Kataragama area, Sri Lanka

Terra Nova

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 236-244

  Kleinschrodt, Reiner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOCK ROTATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISION; CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUST (LOWER); GRANULITE; MIGMATITE; STRAIN LOCALIZATION;

SRI LANKA, KATARAGAMA;

EID: 0030482597     PISSN: 09544879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3121.1996.tb00752.x     Document Type: Article

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