Fracture-driven intrusion and upwelling of a mid-crustal pluton fed from a transpressive shear zone - The Rieserferner Pluton (Eastern Alps)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 219-237

  Wagner, Ralph ^a   Rosenberg, Claudio L ^a   Handy, Mark R ^a   Möbus, Christoph ^b   Albertz, Markus ^c  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ascent mechanisms; Eastern Alps; Emplacement mechanisms; Pluton roofs; Shear zones; Syntectonic plutons

Indexed keywords

ASCENT MECHANISMS; EMPLACEMENT MECHANISMS; FRACTURE-DRIVEN INTRUSION; MID-CRUSTAL PLUTON; PLUTON ROOFS; SHEAR ZONES; SYNTECTONIC PLUTONS; THERMAL MODELING;

FRACTURE; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; IGNEOUS ROCKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; QUARTZ; THERMOANALYSIS; VISCOSITY;

TECTONICS;

FRACTURE FLOW; PLUTONISM; SHEAR ZONE;

ALPS; EASTERN ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE;

EID: 31544440453     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 00167606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B25842.1     Document Type: Article

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