Quartz veins record earthquake-related brittle failure and short term ductile flow in the deep crust

Tectonophysics

Volumn 457, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 53-63

  Birtel, Sandra ^a   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amphibolite facies; Brittle failure; Fluid flow; Postseismic creep; Quartz vein; Seismic cycle

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE FAULT; AMPHIBOLITE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; ECLOGITE; FLUID FLOW; HOST ROCK; NORMAL FAULT; POSTSEISMIC PROCESS; QUARTZ VEIN; RETROGRADE METAMORPHISM;

EID: 49349106592     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2008.05.018     Document Type: Article

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