Creep of phyllosilicates at the onset of plate tectonics

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 345-348, Issue , 2012, Pages 142-150

  Amiguet, Elodie ^a,b,c   Reynard, Bruno ^a,b,c   Caracas, Razvan ^a,b,c   Van de Moortèle, Bertrand ^a,b,c   Hilairet, Nadège ^d,e   Wang, Yanbin ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LILLE 1   (France)

Author keywords

Creep; Phyllosilicates; Plate tectonics; Rheology

Indexed keywords

BASAL PLANES; BRITTLE FAILURES; CORE COMPLEX; CRITICAL VALUE; DEFORMATION FEATURE; EXTENSIONAL FAULTS; FAULT ZONE; FIRST-PRINCIPLES CALCULATION; FRICTIONAL STRENGTH; HYDROTHERMALLY; LITHOSPHERIC; LITHOSPHERIC ROCKS; LIZARDITE; LOW TEMPERATURES; MID-OCEANIC RIDGES; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; PHYLLOSILICATE; PHYLLOSILICATES; PLATE BOUNDARIES; POLYCRYSTALLINE; PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIOUR; SEISMOGENIC ZONES; SHEAR ZONE; SUBDUCTION INTERFACE; WATER ROCK INTERACTIONS;

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; CALCULATIONS; CREEP; GEODYNAMICS; KAOLINITE; MICA; RHEOLOGY; SEDIMENTATION; SERPENTINE; SILICATES; TRANSFORM FAULTS;

TECTONICS;

CREEP; GEODYNAMICS; LITHOSPHERIC STRUCTURE; LIZARDITE; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; PHYLLOSILICATE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLATE TECTONICS; RHEOLOGY; SERPENTINIZATION; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN RATE; SUBDUCTION ZONE; TRANSFORM FAULT; WATER-ROCK INTERACTION;

MICAS;

EID: 84864036994     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.033     Document Type: Article

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