Plastic deformation and development of antigorite crystal preferred orientation in high-pressure serpentinites

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 349-350, Issue , 2012, Pages 75-86

  Padrón Navarta, José Alberto ^a   Tommasi, Andréa ^a   Garrido, Carlos J ^b   López Sánchez Vizcaíno, Vicente ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^b INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF JAÉN   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Antigorite; Ductile deformation; EBSD; Modelling; Subduction

Indexed keywords

ANTIGORITE; BETIC CORDILLERA; CRYSTAL PREFERRED ORIENTATIONS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISLOCATION CREEP; DUCTILE DEFORMATIONS; EBSD; FOLIATION DEVELOPMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOWER-BOUND APPROACHES; MAGNETITE AGGREGATES; MANTLE WEDGE; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MIS-ORIENTATION; MISORIENTATIONS; NON-BASAL SLIP SYSTEMS; PHASE DIAGRAM CALCULATIONS; POWER-LAW RHEOLOGY; RELATIVE STRENGTH; ROTATION AXIS; SERPENTINITE; SLIP SYSTEM; STATIC ANNEALING; SUBDUCTION; SUBGRAIN BOUNDARIES; SUBGRAINS; TRANSPRESSION; ULTRAMAFIC MASSIFS; VISCOPLASTIC DEFORMATION;

ACTIVATION ANALYSIS; ANISOTROPY; DEFORMATION; EDGE DISLOCATIONS; KAOLINITE; METALLOGRAPHIC MICROSTRUCTURE; MODELS; PHASE DIAGRAMS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SERPENTINE;

ANISOTROPY; ANTIGORITE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DISLOCATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; HIGH PRESSURE; ORIENTATION; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SERPENTINITE; SUBDUCTION; TEXTURE;

EID: 84864417087     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.06.049     Document Type: Article

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