Localization of deformation triggered by chemo-mechanical feedback processes

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5-6, 2012, Pages 737-745

  Grasemann, Bernhard ^a   Tschegg, Cornelius ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE-DUCTILE TRANSITION ZONE; CHEMO-MECHANICAL MODEL; COMPLEX QUESTIONS; CYCLADES; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FAULT ROCK; FAULT ZONE; FEEDBACK PROCESS; FLUID INFLUX; LOCALIZATION OF DEFORMATION; MINERAL REACTIONS; MYLONITES; NORMAL FAULTS; PHYLLOSILICATE; REACTION FRONT; RELATIVE TIMING; STRAIN SOFTENING;

DEFORMATION; FRICTION; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; STRAIN; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TALC;

MINERALS;

BOUDINAGE; CALCITE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DOLOMITE; FAULT ZONE; MYLONITE; NORMAL FAULT; NUCLEATION; TALC;

AEGEAN ISLANDS; CYCLADES; GREECE; MILOS [SOUTHERN AEGEAN]; SERIFOS; SOUTHERN AEGEAN;

EID: 84863505947     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: 19432674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/B30504.1     Document Type: Article

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