All Articles tagged shear zone

• Science Paper
  December 02, 2024 EDT
  Deformation by Pressure Solution and Grain Boundary Sliding in a Retrograde Shear Zone in Southern New England, USA
  Robert P. WintschBryan A. WathenRyan J. McAleerJesse WaltersJessica A. Matthews

  Micaceous schist near Ansonia, Connecticut developed in a ductile fault by dissolution of original minerals and precipitation of new platy micas that produced a very fissile rock.

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• Science Paper
  January 01, 2021 EDT
  Late Paleozoic Tectonic Transition From Subduction to Collision in the Chinese Altai and Tianshan (Central Asia): New Geochronological Constraints
  Pengfei LiMin SunChao YuanFred JourdanWanwan HuYingde Jiang

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• Science Paper
  January 01, 2014 EDT
  Late Paleozoic Pre and Syn-Kinematic Plutons of the Kangguer–Huangshan Shear Zone: Inference on the Tectonic Evolution of the Eastern Chinese North Tianshan
  Bo WangDominique CluzelBor-ming JahnLiangshu ShuYan ChenYazhong ZhaiYannick BranquetLuc BarbansonStanislas Sizaret

  Permian large-scale transcurrent tectonics and massive magmatism are prominent features of the Tianshan belt and neighboring regions of the Central Asian Orogenic Belt. Structural, geochronological and geochemical analyses of Carboniferous...

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• Science Paper
  November 01, 2010 EDT
  Setting of the ∼2560 Ma Qôrqut Granite Complex in the Archean Crustal Evolution of Southern West Greenland
  Allen P. NutmanClark R. L. FriendJoe Hiess

  The Archean gneiss complex of West Greenland contains packages of unrelated rocks created during relatively short periods of time in arc-like magmatic environments, and having similarities to rocks formed at...

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