Coeval formation of cataclasite and pseudotachylyte in a Miocene forearc granodiorite, southern Kyushu, Japan

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 1015-1025

  Fabbri, Olivier ^a   Lin, Aiming ^b   Tokushige, Hirotaka ^c  

^a université Bourgogne Franche Comté   (France)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Chuo Kaihatsu Corp   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATACLASTIC ROCKS; COEVAL FORMATION; NORMAL FAULT ZONE; PSEUDOTACHYLYTES;

FRACTURE; KINEMATICS; MINERALS; PETROLOGY; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

TECTONICS;

CATACLASITE; FAULT ZONE; FOREARC BASIN; GRANODIORITE; MIOCENE; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; SHEAR ZONE;

JAPAN;

EID: 0034255592     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(00)00021-3     Document Type: Article

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