Preliminary kinematic data from a salient-recess pair along the Moine thrust, northwest Scotland

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 383, Issue , 2004, Pages 87-107

  Strine, Matthew ^a   Mitra, Gautam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

C axes; Fold thrust belts; Grain shape analysis; Kinematics; Moine; Mylonites

Indexed keywords

FAULTING; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); STRAIN; TEXTURES;

FIELD MEASUREMENT; FOLD-THRUST BELTS; GRAIN SHAPES; LATERAL VARIATIONS; MOINE; MYLONITES; PLANAR GEOMETRIES; REGIONAL TRANSPORT;

KINEMATICS;

DATA; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FOLIATION; FOOTWALL; KINEMATICS; MAP; MYLONITE; QUARTZ; SHAPE; STRAIN; THRUST;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 16244381207     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2383-3(2004)383[87:PKDFAS]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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