Fingerprinting stress: Stylolite and calcite twinning paleopiezometry revealing the complexity of progressive stress patterns during folding—The case of the Monte Nero anticline in the Apennines, Italy

Tectonics

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1687-1712

  Beaudoin, Nicolas ^a   Koehn, Daniel ^a   Lacombe, Olivier ^b   Lecouty, Alexandre ^b   Billi, Andrea ^c   Aharonov, Einat ^d   Parlangeau, Camille ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

calcite twins; fold; fractures; microstructures; stress; stylolites

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; COMPLEX NETWORKS; FRACTURE; MICROSTRUCTURE; NETWORK LAYERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STRESSES;

DEFORMATION AND STRESS; FINGERPRINTING TECHNIQUES; FOLD; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; INVERSION TECHNIQUES; LAYER PARALLEL SHORTENINGS; STYLOLITES; TEMPORAL RELATIONSHIPS;

TECTONICS;

ANTICLINE; CALCITE; COMPLEXITY; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRESS FIELD; STYLOLITE; TWINNING;

APENNINES; ITALY; UMBRIA-MARCHE BASIN;

EID: 84978759445     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: 19449194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016TC004128     Document Type: Article

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