Articles | Volume 7, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1331-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-7-1331-2016
Research article
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16 Sep 2016
Research article |  | 16 Sep 2016

Mid-crustal shear zone development under retrograde conditions: pressure–temperature–fluid constraints from the Kuckaus Mylonite Zone, Namibia

Johann F. A. Diener, Åke Fagereng, and Sukey A. J. Thomas

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