Fabric attractors in general triclinic flow systems and their application to high strain shear zones: A dynamical system approach

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 298-317

  Iacopini, D ^a   Passchier, C W ^b   Koehn, D ^b   Carosi, R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Deformation; Eigenvector; Flow kinematics; Ghostvector; Shear zones

Indexed keywords

FLOW KINEMATICS; SHEAR ZONES; TRICLINIC FLOW SYSTEM;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; KINEMATICS; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN; VORTEX FLOW;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DEFORMATION; EIGENVALUE; FLOW STRUCTURE; KINEMATICS; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN;

EID: 33846817444     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2006.10.002     Document Type: Article

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