Quartz veins deformed by diffusion creep-accommodated grain boundary sliding during a transient, high strain-rate event in the Southern Alps, New Zealand

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 902-918

  Wightman, Ruth H ^a   Prior, David J ^b   Little, Timothy A ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grain boundary sliding; Neotectonics; Quartz deformation; Southern Alps

Indexed keywords

GRAIN BOUNDARY SLIDING; NEOTECTONICS; QUARTZ DEFORMATION; QUARTZ VEINS;

CREEP; DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION IN SOLIDS; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; QUARTZ; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TECTONICS;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CREEP; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GRAIN BOUNDARY; NEOTECTONICS; QUARTZ VEIN; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN RATE;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND; SOUTH ISLAND; SOUTHERN ALPS;

EID: 33744542262     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2006.02.008     Document Type: Article

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