Microstructure and elastic anisotropy of naturally deformed leucogneiss from a shear zone in Montalto (southern Calabria, Italy)

Geological Society Special Publication

Volumn 332, Issue , 2010, Pages 49-68

  Cirrincione, Rosolino ^a   Fazio, Eugenio ^a   Heilbronner, Renée ^b   Kern, Hartmut ^c   Mengel, Kurt ^d   Ortolano, Gaetano ^a   Pezzino, Antonino ^a   Punturo, Rosalda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d CLAUSTHAL UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALI FELDSPAR; AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; BIOTITE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; GNEISS; GREENSCHIST FACIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MYLONITE; PHENGITE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC VELOCITY; SHEAR BAND; SHEAR ZONE; TEXTURE; WAVE SPLITTING;

CALABRIA; ITALY;

EID: 77955991798     PISSN: 03058719     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1144/SP332.4     Document Type: Article

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