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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Norwegian Polar Institute
2016-06-01
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Series: | Polar Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/25420/47164 |