Fluid controlled metamorphism of eclogitic pseudotachylite-bearing shear zones, Flakstadøy, northern Norway

• Main Author: Deborah Joy Shulman
• Other Authors: Mary Leech, Karen Grove, Christopher Gerbi
• Format: Master Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco State University 2012
• Subjects: Lofoten; Norway; Flakstadøy; Northern Norway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10211.3/125564

The Lofoten Islands in northern Norway represent the lower crust in the Baltica- Laurentia collision during the Caledonian Orogeny -460 Ma. The island of Flakstadoy consists o f -1.8 Ga granulite-facies gneisses and AMCG units cut by discrete Caledonian shear zones, some containing pseudotachylite v...