Rethinking conditions necessary for pseudotachylyte formation: Observations from the Otago schists, South Island, New Zealand

Tectonophysics

Volumn 490, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 69-80

  Bjornerud M ^a  

^a LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cataclasite; Frictional melting; Otago Schist; Pseudotachylyte; Thermal pressurization

Indexed keywords

BIMODAL GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; CATACLASIS; CATACLASITE; CRUSTAL EXTENSION; DAMAGE ZONES; DRY ROCKS; EFFECTIVE STRESS; FAULT EVOLUTION; FAULT ZONE; FRACTAL GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; FRICTIONAL CONTACT; FRICTIONAL MELTING; FRICTIONAL RESISTANCE; GEOPHYSICAL MODELS; GRAIN FLOW; INTERMEDIATE STAGE; LATE CRETACEOUS; LOW PERMEABILITY; MATRIX; MELT LUBRICATION; NORMAL FAULTS; PERMEABILITY DAMAGE; PSEUDOTACHYLYTES; ROCK SURFACES; SEISMIC EVENT; SEISMIC SLIPS; SOUTH ISLAND , NEW ZEALAND; THERMAL PRESSURIZATION; TRANSGRANULAR FRACTURE;

FABRICS; FLUIDIZATION; FRACTURE; FRICTION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; HYDRATES; PRESSURIZATION; SEISMOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TECTONICS;

CRYSTALLINE ROCKS;

CATACLASITE; COSEISMIC PROCESS; FAULT ZONE; PARTIAL MELTING; PERMEABILITY; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; SCHIST; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

NEW ZEALAND; OTAGO; SOUTH ISLAND;

EID: 77954031046     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2010.04.028     Document Type: Article

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