Mylonites of the South Armorican Shear Zone: Insights for crustal-scale fluid flow and water-rock interaction processes

Journal of Geodynamics

Volumn 56-57, Issue , 2012, Pages 86-107

  Tartèse, Romain ^a   Boulvais, Philippe ^a   Poujol, Marc ^a   Chevalier, Thomas ^a   Paquette, Jean Louis ^b   Ireland, Trevor R ^c   Deloule, Etienne ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ BLAISE PASCAL   (France)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Elementary mobility; Fluid circulation; Mylonites; O isotopes; South Armorican Shear Zone; U Th Pb dating

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; ELEMENT MOBILITY; EXHUMATION; FLUID FLOW; GEOCHEMISTRY; GREENSCHIST; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MINERALOGY; MYLONITE; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PETROLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; STABLE ISOTOPE; URANIUM SERIES DATING; URANIUM-LEAD DATING; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

ARMORICAN MASSIF; BRETAGNE; FRANCE;

EID: 84855376562     PISSN: 02643707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jog.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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