Transpression and tectonic exhumation in the Heimefrontfjella, western orogenic front of the East African/Antarctic Orogen, revealed by quartz textures of high strain domains

The metamorphic basement of the Heimefrontfjella in western Dronning Maud Land (Antarctica) forms the western margin of the major ca. 500 million year old East African/East Antarctic Orogen that resulted from the collision of East Antarctica and greater India with the African cratons. The boundary b...

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Main Authors: Wilfried Bauer, Heinrich Siemes, Gerhard Spaeth, Joachim Jacobs
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Norwegian Polar Institute 2016-06-01
Series:Polar Research
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Online Access:http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/25420/47164