Interpreting magmatic fabric patterns in plutons

Lithos

Volumn 44, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 53-82

  Paterson, Scott R ^a   Fowler Jr , T Kenneth ^a   Schmidt, Keegan L ^a   Yoshinobu, Aaron S ^a   Yuan, E Semele ^a   Miller, Robert B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fabric pattern; Magmatic fabric; Pluton

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; MAGMA; PLUTON; STRAIN; STRESS; TEXTURE;

EID: 0032450797     PISSN: 00244937     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0024-4937(98)00022-X     Document Type: Article

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