Heterogeneous strain and polymetamorphism in high-grade terranes: Insight into crustal processes from the athabasca granulite terrane, western Canada, and the Limpopo Complex, southern Africa

Memoir of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 207, Issue , 2011, Pages 269-287

  Mahan, K H ^a   Smit, C A ^b   Williams, M L ^c   Dumond, G ^d   Van Reenen, D D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHEAR FLOW;

CRUSTAL PROCESS; HETEROGENEOUS DEFORMATION; HETEROGENEOUS STRAIN; HIGH RESOLUTION; POLYMETAMORPHISM; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL HETEROGENEITY; TECTONIC HISTORY; TECTONIC MODELS;

TECTONICS;

DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EXHUMATION; GRANULITE; HETEROGENEITY; METAMORPHISM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC SETTING; TERRANE;

ALBERTA; ATHABASCA; CANADA; LIMPOPO BELT;

EID: 80051908735     PISSN: 00721069     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2011.1207(14)     Document Type: Article

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