Roles of quartz and mica in seismic anisotropy of mylonites

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 190, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1123-1134

  Ward, Dustin ^a   Mahan, Kevin ^a   Schulte Pelkum, Vera ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Crustal structure; High strain deformation zones; Microstructures; Seismic anisotropy

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIONAL; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; CRITICAL THRESHOLD; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHIC ORIENTATIONS; DEEP CRUSTAL STRUCTURES; ELECTRON BACK SCATTER DIFFRACTION; HIGH STRAIN DEFORMATION; INDUCED ANISOTROPY; INTERFERENCE EFFECTS; MINERAL PHASIS; MYLONITES; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC STUDIES; SIMPLIFYING ASSUMPTIONS;

ANISOTROPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MICROSTRUCTURE; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; QUARTZ;

MICA;

COMPRESSION; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; MICA; MICROSTRUCTURE; MYLONITE; QUARTZ; S-WAVE; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; SEISMIC RESPONSE;

MICAS;

EID: 84863774339     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05528.x     Document Type: Article

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