Titanium-in-quartz thermometry on synkinematic quartz veins in a retrograde crustal-scale normal fault zone

Tectonophysics

Volumn 608, Issue , 2013, Pages 468-481

  Haertel, Mike ^a   Herwegh, Marco ^a   Pettke, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Deformation; Geothermometry; Quartz mylonite; Recrystallization; Simplon Fault Zone; Ti in quartz

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION TEMPERATURES; FAULT ZONE; GEOTHERMOMETRY; GRAIN BOUNDARY MIGRATIONS; INTERMEDIATETO-LOW TEMPERATURE (ILT); MYLONITES; RECRYSTALLIZATION PROCESS; RECRYSTALLIZED GRAIN SIZES;

CRYSTALLIZATION; DEFORMATION; DYNAMIC RECRYSTALLIZATION; ESTIMATION; GRAIN BOUNDARIES; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMOMETERS; TITANIUM;

QUARTZ;

DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FAULT ZONE; GEOTHERMOMETRY; MYLONITE; NORMAL FAULT; QUARTZ; QUARTZ VEIN; RECRYSTALLIZATION; RHEOLOGY; TITANIUM; UPPER CRUST;

SIMPLON FAULT ZONE;

EID: 84887816857     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tecto.2013.08.042     Document Type: Article

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