Paleostress reconstruction from kinematic indicators in the Oslo Graben, southern Norway: New constraints on the mode of rifting

Tectonophysics

Volumn 266, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 55-79

  Heeremans, Michel ^a   Larsen, Bjørn T ^b   Stel, Harry ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

Author keywords

Magmatism; Oslo graben; Paleostress reconstruction; Slickensides

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001884825     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00183-7     Document Type: Article

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