Microstructural Criteria for Synseismic Loading and Postseismic Creep in the Uppermost Plastosphere 

An Example From the Sesia Zone, Western Alps
 
 

Thesis accepted by the faculty of Geoscience at the Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of a Dr. rer. nat.

May 2002

Claudia A. Trepmann
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Methods
3. Geological setting
4. High strain zones
5. Mechanical twinning of jadeite
6. Cataclastic deformation of garnet
7. Plasticity and creep of quartz
8. Branching quartz veins		 9. Conclusions
10. References 
List of specimens
EMP analyses
Acknowledgements
Curriculum Vitae


 

Examination committee:

Prof. Dr. Bernhard Stöckhert

Prof. Dr. Jörg Renner

Prof. Dr. Sumit Chakraborty

Day of examination:

7th of May 2002