Microtectonics deals with the interpretation of microstructures, small-scale deformation structures in rocks that yield abundant information on the history and type of deformation and …
P Carrez, A Mussi, P Cordier - Annual Review of Earth and …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
▪ An understanding of the rheological behavior of the solid Earth is fundamental to provide a quantitative description of most geological and geophysical phenomena. The continuum …
The microstructures of two contrasting garnet grains are mapped using automated electron backscatter diffraction. In both cases there is a very strong crystallographic preferred …
J Zhang, HW Green - Journal of metamorphic Geology, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Eclogite plays an important role in mantle convection and geodynamics in subduction zones. An improved understanding of processes in the deeper levels of subduction zones …
M Cho, Y Kim, J Ahn - International Geology Review, 2007 - Taylor & Francis
The Imjingang belt in the central Korean Peninsula is a strong candidate to represent the extension of the Dabie-Sulu ultrahigh-pressure (UHP) belt in China. This fold-thrust belt …
Fractures and faults riddle the Earth's crust on all scales, and the deformation associated with them is presumed to have had significant effects on its petrological and structural …
S Ji, K Saruwatari, D Mainprice, R Wirth, Z Xu, B Xia - Tectonophysics, 2003 - Elsevier
Ultra high-pressure (UHP) eclogites from Sulu region (China) represent mafic components of the continental crust, which were first subducted to mantle depths greater than 100 km …
CD Storey, DJ Prior - Journal of petrology, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Elongate and deformed garnets from Glenelg, NW Scotland, occur within a thin shear zone transecting an eclogite body that has undergone partial retrogression to amphibolite facies …