Articles | Volume 9, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-629-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/se-9-629-2018
Research article
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09 May 2018
Research article |  | 09 May 2018

Pseudotachylyte as field evidence for lower-crustal earthquakes during the intracontinental Petermann Orogeny (Musgrave Block, Central Australia)

Friedrich Hawemann, Neil S. Mancktelow, Sebastian Wex, Alfredo Camacho, and Giorgio Pennacchioni

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