Anatomy of a 10 km scale sheath fold, Mount Hay ridge, Arunta Region, central Australia: The structural record of deep crustal flow

Tectonics

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Bonamici, Chlo E ^a   Tikoff, Basil ^a   Goodwin, Laurel B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; AXIAL PLANES; CROSS SECTION; CRUSTAL FLOW; CRUSTAL ROCKS; DATA SETS; DEVONIANS; DOMAIN BOUNDARY; FINITE STRAIN; MESOSCALE; PALEOPROTEROZOIC; PROTEROZOIC; REGIONAL TECTONICS; SHEAR ZONE; SHEATH FOLD; STRAIN COMPATIBILITY; STRAIN LOCALIZATIONS; STRAIN MAGNITUDE; STRAIN PATHS; STRUCTURAL DOMAINS;

SHEAR FLOW;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION; DETACHMENT FAULT; DEVONIAN; EXHUMATION; GABBRO; GRANULITE; OROGENY; PROTEROZOIC; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TILT;

AUSTRALIA; MOUNT HAY; NORTHERN TERRITORY;

EID: 84855323667     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011TC002873     Document Type: Article

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