Microstructural and textural development of calcite marbles during polyphase deformation of Penninic units within the Tauern Window (Eastern Alps)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 316, Issue 3-4, 2000, Pages 327-342

  Kurz, W ^a   Neubauer, F ^b   Unzog, W ^a   Genser, J ^b   Wang, X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Calcite; Crystallographic preferred orientations (CPOs); Eastern Alps; Microstructures; Polyphase deformation; Tauern Window

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; MARBLE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION;

AUSTRIA;

EID: 0034731867     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(99)00257-7     Document Type: Article

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