Transcurrent strain partitioning along a suture zone in the Maures massif (France): Result of eastern indenter tectonics in European Variscides?

Special Paper of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 364, Issue , 2002, Pages 223-237

  Bellot, J P ^a   Bronner, G ^b   Laverne, C ^b  

^a Le Bourg   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL COLLISIONS; CONTINENTAL SUBDUCTIONS; LATE OROGENIC EXTENSION; MANTLE STRUCTURE; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; OBLIQUE COLLISION; STRAIN PARTITIONING;

TECTONICS;

BRITTLE DEFORMATION; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; HERCYNIAN OROGENY; HETEROGENEITY; LITHOSTRATIGRAPHY; SHEAR ZONE; ULTRAMAFIC ROCK;

FRANCE; MAURES MASSIF; PROVENCE-ALPES-COTE D'AZUR; VAR;

EID: 0012925706     PISSN: 00721077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/0-8137-2364-7.223     Document Type: Article

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