"Order from chaos": A field-based estimate on bulk rheology of tectonic mélanges formed in subduction zones

Tectonophysics

Volumn 568-569, Issue , 2012, Pages 86-101

  Grigull, Susanne ^a   Krohe, Alexander ^a,b   Moos, Christoph ^a   Wassmann, Sara ^a   Stöckhert, Bernhard ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Block in matrix structure; Dissolution precipitation creep; M lange; Rheology; Subduction channel

Indexed keywords

BLOCK VOLUME FRACTIONS; BULK VISCOSITY; DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR; DEFORMED MATRIX; DISTRIBUTED DEFORMATION; DOMINANT DEFORMATION MECHANISM; GRAIN SIZE; HIGH STRAIN DEFORMATION; LINEAR VISCOUS; MATRIX MATERIALS; MATRIX VISCOSITY; NEWTONIANS; PLATE INTERFACES; RIGID BLOCK; RIGID SPHERE; ROCK BODIES; STEREOLOGY; STRESS STATE; SUBDUCTION CHANNEL; SUBDUCTION ZONES; TYPICAL VALUES; VISCOSITY INCREASE;

CREEP; DISSOLUTION; INTERFACE STATES; MICROSTRUCTURE; RHEOLOGY; TECTONICS; VOLUME FRACTION;

ELASTICITY;

CREEP; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DISSOLUTION; LITHOLOGY; MELANGE; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLATE TECTONICS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); RHEOLOGY; SUBDUCTION ZONE; VISCOSITY;

EID: 84866173064     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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