Calcite twinning strains in Alpine orogen flysch: Implications for thrust-nappe mechanics and the geodynamics of Crete

Lithosphere

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 174-191

  Craddock, John P ^a   Klein, Thomas ^b   Kowalczyk, Gotthard ^b   Zulauf, Gernold ^b  

^a MACALESTER COLLEGE   (United States)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; DEPOSITS; GEODYNAMICS; LIME; LIMESTONE; STRAIN;

CALCAREOUS SHALES; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; EXPECTED VALUES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; STRAIN MAGNITUDE; STRESS-STRAIN FIELD; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; VERTICAL EXTENSION;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CALCITE; CRETACEOUS; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; FLYSCH; GEODYNAMICS; MARINE SEDIMENT; NAPPE; OLIGOCENE; STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; TWINNING;

CRETE; GREECE;

EID: 80054702960     PISSN: 19418264     EISSN: 19474253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/L31.1     Document Type: Article

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