Palaeomagnetic dating of fault rocks: evidence for Permian and Mesozoic movements and brittle deformation along the extensional Dalsfjord Fault, western Norway

Geophysical Journal International

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 565-580

  Torsvik, T H ^a,b   Sturt, B A ^a   Swensson, E ^c   Andersen, T B ^c   Dewey, J F ^b  

^a GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORWAY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

deformation; faulting; Norway; palaeomagnetism

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; PALAEOMAGNETISM; REACTIVATION;

NORWAY;

EID: 0026445273     PISSN: 0956540X     EISSN: 1365246X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.1992.tb00118.x     Document Type: Article

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