Quartz c-axis fabrics of poly-deformed leucocratic gneisses from the Aracena metamorphic belt (SW Variscan Chain)

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 340, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 315-323

  Díaz Azpiroz, Manuel ^a   Fernández, Carlos ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD PABLO DE OLAVIDE   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HUELVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flattening; High grade metamorphism; Iberian Massif; Non coaxial flow; Reactivation; Variscan orogeny

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; DISPLACEMENT; GNEISS; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; METAMORPHISM; QUARTZ; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IBERIAN MASSIF; IBERIAN PENINSULA; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 41349100770     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2007.12.010     Document Type: Article

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