Lithospheric shear zones as constant stress experiments

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 127-130

  Platt, J P ^a   Behr, W M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTANT STRAIN RATE; CONSTANT STRESS; CONVECTIVE MOTIONS; CRITICAL FACTORS; DOMINANT DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DUCTILE SHEAR ZONE; EARTH'S INTERIOR; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN-SIZE REDUCTION; LITHOSPHERIC; PLATE BOUNDARIES; PLATE TECTONICS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; STRIKE-SLIP SHEAR ZONES; SURROUNDING ROCK; TEMPERATURE CHANGES; YIELD STRENGTH;

DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS;

GRAIN GROWTH;

BOUNDARY CONDITION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXHUMATION; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; MICROSTRUCTURE; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; RECRYSTALLIZATION; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TECTONIC STRUCTURE;

EID: 78851470730     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31561.1     Document Type: Article

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