Deformation character and palaeo-fluid flow across a wrench fault within a Palaeozoic subduction-accretion system: Waratah fault zone, southeastern Australia

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 191-214

  Gray, David R ^a   Janssen, Christoph ^b   Vapnik, Yevgeny ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE FRACTURE; DEFORMATION; INCLUSIONS; LIMESTONE; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; PETROLOGY; POROSITY; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); ROCK MECHANICS; SEISMOLOGY;

PALAEO-FLUID FLOW; PALAEOZOIC SUBDUCTION-ACCRETION SYSTEMS; TURBIDITE; WRENCH FAULTS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

FAULT ZONE; FLUID FLOW; MELANGE; OROGENY; WRENCH FAULT;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; WARATAH FAULT ZONE;

EID: 0033081243     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(98)00115-1     Document Type: Article

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