Simulating coseismic deformation of quartz in the middle crust and fabric evolution during postseismic stress relaxation - An experimental study

Tectonophysics

Volumn 442, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 83-104

  Trepmann, Claudia A ^a   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^a   Dorner, Dorothée ^b   Moghadam, Rasoul Hamidzadeh ^a   Küster, Martina ^a   Röller, Klaus ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Deformation experiment; Dynamic recrystallisation; Electron backscatter diffraction; Quartz; Static recrystallisation; Transmission electron microscopy

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COSEISMIC PROCESS; CRUST; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIFFRACTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN RATE; STRESS ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

CALIFORNIA; LONG VALLEY CALDERA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34548312493     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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