Feedback between fluid infiltration and rheology along a regional ductile-to-brittle shear zone: The East Tenda Shear Zone (Alpine Corsica)

Tectonics

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 253-280

  Maggi, Matteo ^a   Rossetti, Federico ^a   Ranalli, Giorgio ^b   Theye, Thomas ^c  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

fluid flow; geochemical alteration; rheology; shear zones; texture

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; ELASTICITY; FELDSPAR; FLOW OF FLUIDS; GEOCHEMISTRY; MICA; RHEOLOGY; STRAIN HARDENING; TECTONICS; TEXTURES;

FLUID-ROCK INTERACTION; GEOCHEMICAL ALTERATION; GEOCHEMICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PROGRESSIVE DEFORMATION; RHEOLOGICAL BEHAVIORS; RHEOLOGICAL MODELING; RHEOLOGICAL TRANSITION; SHEAR ZONE;

SHEAR FLOW;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; DUCTILE DEFORMATION; FLUID FLOW; GEOCHEMISTRY; GNEISS; GRANITOID; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; MINERALOGY; PROTOLITH; RHEOLOGY; SHEAR ZONE; STRAIN RATE; TECTONIC EVOLUTION; TEXTURE;

CORSE; FRANCE;

SCHISTES;

EID: 84896060540     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013TC003370     Document Type: Article

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