Quantification of flow patterns in sheared tonalite crystal-melt mush: Application of fractal-geometry methods

Journal of the Geological Society of India

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 210-224

  Gerik, Axel ^a,b   Kruhl, Jörn H ^a   Caggianelli, Alfredo ^c  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Box counting; Fabric quantification; Magmatic flow; Modified cantor dust method; Syntectonic intrusion

Indexed keywords

FLOW PATTERN; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; GEOMETRY; IGNEOUS INTRUSION; LOWER CRUST; MAGMA; NUMERICAL METHOD; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHEAR STRESS; TONALITE;

EID: 77954849528     PISSN: 00167622     EISSN: 09746889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12594-010-0009-9     Document Type: Article

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