Grain scale deformation in ultra-high-pressure metamorphic rocks - An indicator of rapid phase transformation

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 229, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 217-230

  Lenze, Annette ^a   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^a   Wirth, Richard ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coesite quartz transformation; Jadeite; Kyanite; Mechanical twinning; Ultra high pressure metamorphism; Volumetric strain

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION BANDS; GRAIN SCALE DEFORMATION; PEAK DIFFERENTIAL STRESSES; ULTRA-HIGH-PRESSURE (UHP) METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

ANNEALING; CRYSTALS; DEFORMATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; HIGH PRESSURE EFFECTS; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRESSES;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

COESITE; EXHUMATION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; JADEITE; PHASE TRANSITION; QUARTZ; TWINNING; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 11944269242     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2004.10.012     Document Type: Article

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