Microfabrics in carbonate mylonites along a large-scale shear zone (Helvetic Alps)

Tectonophysics

Volumn 444, Issue 1-4, 2007, Pages 1-26

  Ebert, Andreas ^a   Herwegh, Marco ^a   Evans, Brian ^b   Pfiffner, Adrian ^a   Austin, Nick ^b   Vennemann, Torsten ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Calcite; Microstructure; Morcles nappe; Second phases

Indexed keywords

ANNEALING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GRAIN SIZE; METAMORPHISM; MICROSTRUCTURE; MYLONITE; NAPPE; PETROFABRIC; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; THRUST;

ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 35148861821     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.07.004     Document Type: Article

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