High-strain zones: a unified model

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 1105-1120

  Jiang, Dazhi ^a   Williams, Paul F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-STRAIN ZONES;

KINEMATICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN ANALYSIS;

EID: 0344972108     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8141(98)00025-X     Document Type: Article

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