The importance of small-scale faulting in regional extension

Nature

Volumn 351, Issue 6325, 1991, Pages 391-393

  Walsh, John ^a   Watterson, Juan ^a   Yielding, Graham ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b Badley Ashton and Associates Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCED SECTION; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; EXTENSION; SEISMIC SECTION; SMALL SCALE FAULTING; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL SUBSIDENCE;

EID: 0026082237     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/351391a0     Document Type: Article

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