Opposing shear senses in a subdetachment mylonite zone: Implications for core complex mechanics

Tectonics

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Cooper, Frances J ^a,e   Platt, John P ^a   Platzman, Ellen S ^a   Grove, Marty J ^b,c   Seward, Gareth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

BASIN AND RANGE; BRITTLE DEFORMATION; BRITTLE DETACHMENT; CORE COMPLEX; CRUSTAL FLOW; DETACHMENT FAULT; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM; LOCALIZED DEFORMATIONS; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; MYLONITES; NORMAL FAULTS;

ELASTICITY;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; EXHUMATION; FOOTWALL; HANGING WALL; KINEMATICS; MYLONITE; NORMAL FAULT; SHEAR ZONE;

NEVADA; SNAKE RANGE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955540511     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009TC002632     Document Type: Article

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