Mechanical twinning in quartz: Shock experiments, impact, pseudotachylites and fault breccias

Tectonophysics

Volumn 510, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 69-79

  Wenk, Hans Rudolf ^a   Janssen, Christoph ^b   Kenkmann, Thomas ^c   Dresen, Georg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dauphin twinning; EBSD; Pseudotachylites; Quartz; Seismic stress; Shock deformation

Indexed keywords

C-AXIS ORIENTATIONS; CREEPING SEGMENT; DIFFRACTION METHODS; DRILLING PROJECTS; EBSD; FAULT BRECCIA; FAULT SURFACES; FRICTIONAL MELTING; HIGH STRESS; MECHANICAL TWINNING; METEORITE IMPACT; MYLONITES; PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; PSEUDOTACHYLITES; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; SEISMIC STRESS; SHOCK DEFORMATION; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TRANSIENT STRESS; TWIN-FREE;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; METEOR IMPACTS; QUARTZ DEPOSITS; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

QUARTZ;

BRECCIA; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MICROSTRUCTURE; PREFERRED ORIENTATION; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; QUARTZ; SAN ANDREAS FAULT; TWINNING;

SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 80052732693     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.06.016     Document Type: Article

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