Estimates of stress and strain rate in mylonites based on the boundary between the fields of grain-size sensitive and insensitive creep

Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth

Volumn 117, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Okudaira, Takamoto ^a   Shigematsu, Norio ^b  

^a Osaka City University   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREEP; DISLOCATION; GRAIN BOUNDARY; GRAIN SIZE; GREENSCHIST FACIES; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; MICROSTRUCTURE; MYLONITE; QUARTZ; RECRYSTALLIZATION; STRAIN RATE; STRESS;

EID: 84858858059     PISSN: 21699313     EISSN: 21699356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JB008799     Document Type: Article

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