Can field data constrain rock viscosities?

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 8-9, 1999, Pages 949-957

  Talbot, C J ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PRESSURE TEMPERATURE TIME SPACE; ROCK VISCOSITIES;

DEFORMATION; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VISCOSITY;

ROCK MECHANICS;

FOLDING; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 0032693433     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(99)00037-1     Document Type: Article

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