Evidence for dominant grain-boundary sliding deformation in greenschist- And amphibolite-grade polymineralic ultramylonites from the Redbank Deformed Zone, Central Australia

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1495-1520

  Fliervoet, Timon F ^a,b   White, Stanley H ^b   Drury, Martyn R ^b  

^a PHILIPS RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTAL ORIENTATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; RHEOLOGY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TEXTURES; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING; INTERPHASE BOUNDARY; MYLONITE; POLYMINERALIC ULTRAMYLONITES; REDBANK DEFORMED ZONE;

ROCKS;

AMPHIBOLITE; DEFORMATION; GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING; GREENSCHIST; METAMORPHISM; MYLONITE;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 0031429965     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(97)00076-X     Document Type: Article

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