Viscous collision in channel explains double domes in metamorphic core complexes

Geology

Volumn 39, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 387-390

  Rey, Patrice F ^a   Teyssier, Christian ^b   Kruckenberg, Seth C ^c   Whitney, Donna L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL FLOW; CRUSTAL STRETCHING; GNEISS DOME; HIGH-STRAIN ZONES; HORIZONTAL FLOWS; IN-CHANNELS; MECHANICAL MODELING; METAMORPHIC CORE COMPLEX; OROGENS; SHALLOW CRUST; UPPER CRUST;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

DOMES;

COLLISION ZONE; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; CRUSTAL SHORTENING; DOME; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FOLIATION; GNEISS; OROGENY; SHEAR STRAIN; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TECTONIC SETTING; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VISCOUS FLOW;

CYCLADAS; FRANCE; GREECE; MONTAGNE NOIRE; NAXOS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 79954573815     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 00917613     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G31587.1     Document Type: Article

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