The Deep Structure and Rheology of a Plate Boundary-Scale Shear Zone: Constraints from an Exhumed Caledonian Shear Zone, NW Scotland
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عنوان ژورنال: Lithosphere
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1947-4253,1941-8264
DOI: 10.2113/2020/8824736