Thermomechanical evolution of a ductile duplex

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 983-1000

  Dunlap, W J ^a,d   Hirth, G ^b   Teyssier, C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; CRYSTALLINE ROCKS; DEFORMATION; FREEZING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; MICA; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SILICATE MINERALS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CLOSURE TEMPERATURES; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; KINEMATIC EVOLUTION; RATES OF CONVERGENCE; RECRYSTALLIZED GRAIN SIZES; STRAIN RATE HISTORY; TIME-TEMPERATURE HISTORY;

STRAIN RATE;

DUCTILE DUPLEX; DUPLEX STRUCTURE; MICA; MICROSTRUCTURE; THERMOCHRONOLOGY; THERMOMECHANICAL EVOLUTION; THRUST SYSTEM;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031390868     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC00614     Document Type: Article

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