Microstructural analysis of anhydrite rocks from the Triassic Evaporites, Umbria-Marche Apennines, Central Italy: An insight into deformation mechanisms and possible slip systems

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 92-103

  Hildyard, Rebecca C ^a   Prior, David J ^a   Faulkner, Daniel R ^a   Mariani, Elisabetta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anhydrite; Microstructure; Misorientation analysis; Slip systems

Indexed keywords

ANHYDRITE; CENTRAL ITALY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC DATUMS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC TEXTURES; DEFORMATION HISTORIES; DEFORMATION MECHANISMS; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; ELECTRON BACKSCATTER DIFFRACTIONS; EVAPORITES; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSES; MICROSTRUCTURAL TEXTURES; MISORIENTATION ANALYSIS; REFERENCE FRAMES; SLIP SYSTEMS; SPACE GROUPS; THRUST BELTS; TILT BOUNDARIES; TRIASSIC;

DEFORMATION; ELECTRON DIFFRACTION; MICROSTRUCTURE; SINGLE CRYSTALS; TEXTURES;

SULFATE MINERALS;

ANHYDRITE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIFFRACTION; DISLOCATION; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; FORELAND BASIN; ORIENTATION; ROCK MICROSTRUCTURE; SLIP; TEXTURE; TRIASSIC; TWINNING;

APENNINES; EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UMBRIA-MARCHE BASIN;

EID: 57649155860     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsg.2008.10.009     Document Type: Article

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