Complex high-strain deformation in the Usagaran Orogen, Tanzania: Structural setting of Palaeoproterozoic eclogites

Tectonophysics

Volumn 375, Issue 1-4, 2003, Pages 101-123

  Reddy, S M ^a   Collins, A S ^a   Mruma, A ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

Kinematics; Shear zone; SHRIMP U Pb geochronology; Tectonics; Transpression

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; ECLOGITE; KINEMATICS; PROTEROZOIC; SHRIMP DATING; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC STRUCTURE; TRANSPRESSION;

TANZANIA; USAGARAN OROGEN;

EID: 0242624440     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(03)00335-4     Document Type: Article

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