Crystal-plastic deformation and recrystallization of peridotite controlled by the seismic cycle

Tectonophysics

Volumn 530-531, Issue , 2012, Pages 111-127

  Matysiak, Agnes K ^a   Trepmann, Claudia A ^b  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Coseismic deformation; Low temperature plasticity; Microstructures; Olivine; Postseismic creep

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; COSEISMIC DEFORMATION; DEFORMATION BAND; DEFORMATION MICROSTRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL STRESS; FOAM STRUCTURE; HIGH STRAIN RATES; HIGH STRESS; INITIAL STAGES; INTER-SEISMIC PERIODS; KINK BANDS; LATE STAGE; LOW TEMPERATURES; LOW-TEMPERATURE PLASTICITY; MICRO-STRUCTURAL; MICROFABRIC; NORTHERN ITALY; PSEUDOTACHYLYTES; RECOVERY AND RECRYSTALLIZATION; RECRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; RECRYSTALLIZED GRAINS; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SHEAR ZONE; STRESS HISTORY; THERMAL HISTORY;

COMPRESSIBLE FLOW; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; GRAIN GROWTH; MICROSTRUCTURE; OLIVINE; PLASTICITY; RECRYSTALLIZATION (METALLURGY); STRAIN RATE; TECTONICS; TEMPERATURE;

CREEP;

COSEISMIC PROCESS; CREEP; LOW TEMPERATURE; MICROSTRUCTURE; OLIVINE; PERIDOTITE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLASTICITY; RECRYSTALLIZATION; STRAIN RATE; STRESS;

EID: 84858282668     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.11.029     Document Type: Article

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