Dynamic recrystallization near the brittle-plastic transition in naturally and experimentally deformed quartz aggregates

Tectonophysics

Volumn 448, Issue 1-4, 2008, Pages 77-97

  Stipp, Michael ^a   Kunze, Karsten ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Bulging; Dislocation creep; Electron backscatter diffraction; Grain boundary migration; Misorientation; Subgrain rotation

Indexed keywords

CONFINING PRESSURE; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; GRAIN BOUNDARY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LATTICE DYNAMICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MYLONITE; P-T CONDITIONS; PHASE TRANSITION; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; QUARTZ; QUARTZITE; RECRYSTALLIZATION; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 39149141864     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2007.11.041     Document Type: Article

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