Flow and strain patterns at the terminations of tapered shear zones

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 297-309

  Mandal, Nibir ^a   Samanta, Susanta Kumar ^a   Chakraborty, Chandan ^b  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Ductile flow; Foliation; Non parallel walls; Simple shear; Vorticity

Indexed keywords

SHEAR ZONES;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; SHEAR FLOW; STRAIN; VORTEX FLOW;

FLOW PATTERNS;

DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FLOW PATTERN; FOLIATION; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN; VORTICITY;

EID: 0036134089     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(01)00065-7     Document Type: Article

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