Strain and Crystallographic Fabric in Mesoscopic Ductile Shear Zones of Garhwal Himalaya

Gondwana Research

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 395-404

  Srivastava, Hari B ^a   Sahai, Atul ^b   Lal, Surya N ^c  

^a BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SGS India Pvt Ltd   (India)

^c KUMAUN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Crystallographic preferred orientation; Ductile shear zone; Garhwal Himalaya; MCT Zone; Strain analysis

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; PETROFABRIC; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; QUARTZ; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN;

BHAGIRATHI VALLEY; GARHWAL HIMALAYAS; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 0345795540     PISSN: 1342937X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1342-937X(05)70297-5     Document Type: Article

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