How low can you go? - Extending downwards the limits of plastic deformation in pyrite

Mineralogical Magazine

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 895-913

  Barrie, C D ^a   Boyle, A P ^b   Salter, M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deformationmechanism map; Electron backscatter diffraction; Lower greenschist; Plastic deformation; Pyrite

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION; CATACLASTIC FLOW; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIFFUSIVE PROCESS; DISLOCATION GLIDE; DISLOCATION WALLS; DOMINANT DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; GREENSCHIST; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOWER GREENSCHIST; METAMORPHIC CONDITIONS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION MECHANISMS; POLYMETALLIC; PYRITE GRAINS; SEM; SUBGRAIN BOUNDARIES;

BACKSCATTERING; BENDING (DEFORMATION); CREEP; DEPOSITS; DIFFRACTION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; ORE DEPOSIT GEOLOGY; ORE DEPOSITS; ORES; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SEDIMENTARY ROCKS;

PLASTICS;

CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GREENSCHIST; LATTICE DYNAMICS; METAMORPHISM; ORE DEPOSIT; P-T CONDITIONS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PYRITE;

EID: 77149166309     PISSN: 0026461X     EISSN: 14718022     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1180/minmag.2009.073.6.895     Document Type: Article

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