Constriction during exhumation: Evidence from eclogite microstructures

Geology

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 37-40

  Kurz, Walter ^a  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Constriction; Crystallographic preferred orientations; Eastern Alps; Eclogites; Flattening; Microstructures

Indexed keywords

CONSTRICTION; CONTINENTAL MATERIALS; ECLOGITES; EXHUMATION;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; HIGH PRESSURE ENGINEERING; MICROSTRUCTURE; OCEANOGRAPHY; ROCKS; STRAIN;

ZONING;

ECLOGITE; EXHUMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; METAMORPHISM; MICROSTRUCTURE; ORIENTATION;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; TAUERN WINDOW; WORLD;

EID: 12844287607     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G20887.1     Document Type: Article

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