Evolution of an Early Permian extensional detachment fault from synintrusive, mylonitic flow to brittle faulting (Grassi Detachment Fault, Orobic Anticline, southern Aips, Italy)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 298, Issue , 2008, Pages 69-82

  Froitzheim, Niko ^a   Derks, J F ^a   Walter, J M ^a   Sciunnach, D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b Regione Lombardia Infrastruttura per l'Informazione Territoriale   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; FOOTWALL; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; MICROSTRUCTURE; MYLONITE; MYLONITIZATION; OROGENIC BELT; PERMIAN; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; UNCONFORMITY;

ALPS; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 51349106639     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP298.4     Document Type: Article

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