Mafic granulite rheology: Implications for a weak continental lower crust

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 353-354, Issue , 2012, Pages 99-107

  Wang, Y F ^a,b   Zhang, J F ^a,b   Jin, Z M ^a   Green, H W ^b  

^a CHINA UNIVERSITY OF GEOSCIENCES   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Continental lower crust; Lattice preferred orientation; Mafic granulite; Rheology; Water

Indexed keywords

AXIAL DEFORMATIONS; CLINOPYROXENES; CONTINENTAL CRUSTS; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISLOCATION CREEP; DISSOLVED WATER; DOMINANT SLIP SYSTEM; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; HYDROUS MINERAL; LATTICE PREFERRED ORIENTATION; LOWER CRUST; MAFIC GRANULITE; ORTHOPYROXENE; ROCK DEFORMATION; STRENGTH MODELS; WEAK LAYER; WEAKENING EFFECT;

DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FELDSPAR; GEODYNAMICS; RHEOLOGY; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; WATER;

METAMORPHIC ROCKS;

CHANNEL FLOW; CLINOPYROXENE; CONTINENTAL CRUST; DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; DISLOCATION; GEODYNAMICS; GRANULITE; LOWER CRUST; MAFIC ROCK; ORTHOPYROXENE; PLAGIOCLASE; RHEOLOGY;

EID: 84865805262     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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