A reappraisal of the Sibson-Scholz fault zone model: The nature of the frictional to viscous ("brittle-ductile") transition along a long-lived, crustal-scale fault, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Tectonics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 601-624

  Imber, J ^a   Holdsworth, R E ^a   Butler, C A ^a   Strachan, R A ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b OXFORD BROOKES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CALEDONIAN OROGENY; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTION; MYLONITE; RHEOLOGY;

OUTER HEBRIDES; SCOTLAND (WESTERN ISLES); UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0034757356     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000TC001250     Document Type: Article

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