An SEM study of porosity and grain boundary microstructure in quartz mylonites, Simplon Fault Zone, Central Alps

Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 71-85

  Mancktelow, Neil S ^a   Grujic, Djordje ^b   Johnson, Eric L ^c  

^a GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARY; MYLONITE; POROSITY; QUARTZ; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

EUROPE;

EID: 0032449820     PISSN: 00107999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004100050379     Document Type: Article

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