The role of fluids in partitioning brittle deformation and ductile creep in auriferous shear zones between 500 and 700 °C

Tectonophysics

Volumn 446, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Kolb, Jochen ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Gold mineralization; Hydrothermal fluids; Rheology; Seismicity; Shear zone

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GOLD; HYDROTHERMAL ALTERATION; HYDROTHERMAL DEPOSIT; HYDROTHERMAL FLUID; MINERALIZATION; PARTITIONING; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN RATE;

EID: 37049008058     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.10.001     Document Type: Review

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