Structural and temporal evolution of a reactivated brittle-ductile fault - Part II: Timing of fault initiation and reactivation by K-Ar dating of synkinematic illite/muscovite

• Published in: Earth and Planetary Science Letters
• Main Authors: Torgersen, E., Viola, G., Zwingmann, Horst, Harris, C.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier BV 2014
• Subjects: Kvenklubben; Norway; Torgersen; Northern Norway
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/41682; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2014.09.031

Present-day exposures of ancient faults represent only the end result of the faults' often protracted and heterogeneous histories. Here we apply K–Ar dating of synkinematic illite/muscovite to constrain the timing of the complete temporal evolution of a complex, multiply-reactivated brittle–duc...