Gauging stress from mantle chromitite pods in the Oman ophiolite

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 349, Issue , 2000, Pages 149-158

  Holtzman, Benjamin ^a  

^a University of Minnesota   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMITE; CREEP; ELASTOPLASTICITY; NUMERICAL MODELS; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

CREEP MECHANISM; DISLOCATION CREEP; ELASTIC-PLASTIC; FRACTURE GEOMETRIES; MECHANICAL INTERACTIONS; MID-OCEAN RIDGES; POLYCRYSTALLINE; UPPERMOST MANTLE;

FRACTURE;

CHROMITITE; DISLOCATION CREEP; MANTLE CONVECTION; MID-OCEAN RIDGE; OPHIOLITE; UPPER MANTLE; VISCOELASTICITY;

OMAN;

EID: 84871022948     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2349-3.149     Document Type: Article

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