Crystallographic orientation of microcracks in quartz and inferred deformation processes: A study on gneisses from the German Continental Deep Drilling Project (KTB)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 303, Issue 1-4, 1999, Pages 279-297

  Vollbrecht, Axel ^a   Stipp, Michael ^a,b   Olesen, Niels Ø ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b Geologisch Palaontologisches Institut Universitat Basel   (Switzerland)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

German Continental Deep Drilling Project; Microcrack mechanisms; Quartz

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEEP DRILLING; GNEISS; ORIENTATION; TEXTURE;

GERMANY;

EID: 0033559263     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(98)00265-0     Document Type: Article

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