Carbonate dilation breccias: Examples from the damage zone to the Dent Fault, northwest England

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5-6, 2005, Pages 736-745

  Tarasewicz, Jon P T ^a   Woodcock, Nigel H ^a   Dickson, J Anthony D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cementation; Coseismic; Damage zone; Fault breccia; Variscan

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE DILATION BRECCIAS; DAMAGE ZONES; DENT FAULTS; PROTOLITHS;

FRACTURE; HARDENING; LIMESTONE; SEISMIC WAVES; TECTONICS;

CARBONATES;

BRECCIA; CARBONIFEROUS; CEMENTATION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DOLOMITIZATION; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; OBLIQUE FAULT; REVERSE FAULT;

CARBONIFEROUS;

EID: 18944387007     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25568.1     Document Type: Article

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