Serrated quartz grain boundaries, temperature and strain rate: Testing fractal techniques in a syntectonic granite

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 332, Issue , 2010, Pages 35-48

  Mamtani, Manish A ^a   Greiling, R O ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOTITE; FELDSPAR; GRAIN BOUNDARY; GRANITE; MICROSTRUCTURE; QUARTZ; STRAIN RATE; SUTURE ZONE; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

INDIA;

EID: 77955987824     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP332.3     Document Type: Article

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