Temperature variability during shear deformation: An interpretation of microstructures along the central Norumbega fault zone, Maine

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 331, Issue , 1999, Pages 25-40

  Hubbard, Mary S ^a   Wang, Hui ^b  

^a KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FELDSPAR; QUARTZ;

APPARENT TEMPERATURE; DEFORMATION TEMPERATURES; LOCALIZATION OF DEFORMATION; QUARTZ MICROSTRUCTURE; SHEAR SENSE INDICATORS; TEMPERATURE CONDITIONS; TEMPERATURE VARIABILITY; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; FELDSPAR; MICROSTRUCTURE; QUARTZ; SHEAR STRESS; STRIKE-SLIP FAULT; TEMPERATURE GRADIENT;

MAINE; NORUMBEGA FAULT ZONE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870926959     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2331-0.25     Document Type: Article

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