Matrix mosaics, brittle deformation, and elongate porphyroclasts: Granulite facies microstructures in the Striding-Athabasca mylonite zone, western Canada

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 947-967

  Hanmer, Simon ^a  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMORPHISM; MYLONITE ZONE; PORPHYROCLASTS;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; BRITTLENESS; CREEP; CRYSTAL MICROSTRUCTURE; CRYSTALLIZATION; DISLOCATIONS (CRYSTALS); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MASS TRANSFER; ROCKS; STRAIN RATE;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

BRITTLE FRACTURE; CREEP; GRANULITE FACIES; GREENSCHIST FACIES; MYLONITE; PORPHYROBLAST; RECRYSTALLIZATION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CANADA;

EID: 0034115019     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(00)00009-2     Document Type: Article

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