The amount of pure shear and thinning in the Hercynian continental lower crust exposed in the Serre Massif (Calabria, southern Italy): An application of the vorticity analysis to quartz c-axis fabrics

Italian Journal of Geosciences

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 214-222

  Festa, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

C axis fabrics; High temperature deformation; Late hercynian thinning; Lower continental crust; Vorticity analysis

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL CRUST; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; HIGH TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; LOWER CRUST; VORTICITY;

CALABRIA; CALABRIAN ARC; ITALY;

EID: 84919428138     PISSN: 20381719     EISSN: 20381727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3301/IJG.2014.03     Document Type: Article

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