Creep of garnet in eclogite: Mechanisms and implications

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 311, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 411-419

  Smit, Matthijs A ^a,b   Scherer, Erik E ^b   John, Timm ^b   Janssen, Arne ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^c JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Creep; Deformation; Eclogite; Garnet; Rheology; Subduction

Indexed keywords

DISLOCATION CREEP; DISSOLUTION SURFACES; ECLOGITES; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; ELEMENT MAPPING; FEED-BACK LOOP; FUNDAMENTAL PARAMETERS; INTERGRANULAR PRESSURE SOLUTIONS; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MYLONITES; RHEOLOGICAL PROPERTY; SUBDUCTING PLATE; SUBDUCTION; SUBDUCTION ZONES; ULTRAHIGH PRESSURE;

DEFORMATION; GARNETS; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; POLYCRYSTALS; RHEOLOGY; ROCKS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CREEP;

CREEP; DEFORMATION; DISSOLUTION; ECLOGITE; GARNET; METAMORPHISM; MICROSTRUCTURE; MYLONITE; POROSITY; RHEOLOGY; ROCK MECHANICS; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TEXTURE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 80054733633     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2011.09.024     Document Type: Article

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