Strain decoupling across the decollement of the Barbados accretionary prism

Geology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 127-130

  Housen, Bernard A ^a   Tobin, Harold J ^b   Labaume, Pierre ^c   Leitch, Evan C ^d   Maltman, Alex J ^e   Shipley, T ^f   Ogawa, Y ^f   Ashi, J ^f   Blum, P ^f   Bruckmann, W ^f   Felice, F ^f   Fisher, A ^f   Goldberg, D ^f   Henry, P ^f   Jurado, M J ^f   Kastner, M ^f   Laier, T ^f   Meyer, A ^f   Moore, J C ^f   Moore, G ^f   Peacock, S ^f   Rabaute, A ^f   Steiger, T ^f   Underwood, M ^f   Xu, Y ^f   Yin, H ^f   Zheng, Y ^f   Zwart, G ^f   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Lab Geophysique Int T   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MAGNETIC ANISOTROPY; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; SEDIMENTS; STRAIN;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; ANISOTROPY OF MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; HIGH-PRESSURE FLUIDS; PRINCIPAL STRAIN; REGIONAL TECTONICS; STRAIN STATE; MAGNETIC SUCEPTIBILITY;

PRISMS;

ACCRETIONARY PRISM; DECOLLEMENT; DEFORMATION; OVERPRESSURE; STRAIN ANALYSIS; SUBDUCTION; ACCRETIONARY PRISMS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; OVERPRESSURING; STRAIN; STRAIN DECOUPLING;

BARBADOS;

EID: 0029775941     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1996)024<0127:SDATDO>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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