Local shear zone pattern and bulk deformation in the Gran Paradiso metagranite (NW Italian Alps)

International Journal of Earth Sciences

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1805-1825

  Menegon, Luca ^a,b   Pennacchioni, Giorgio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Deformation of granites; Flattening; Gran Paradiso; Nucleation of shear zones; Strain analysis; Western Alps

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBOLITE FACIES; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; GNEISS; GRANITE; NAPPE; NUCLEATION; PARTITIONING; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TECTONIC RECONSTRUCTION; TECTONIC SETTING;

ALPS; GRAIAN ALPS; GRAN PARADISO; ITALY; PIEDMONT [ITALY]; WESTERN ALPS;

EID: 78349295619     PISSN: 14373254     EISSN: 14373262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00531-009-0485-6     Document Type: Article

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