Planar detaching faults in the southern Horn Graben, Danish North Sea

Marine and Petroleum Geology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 537-548

  Clausen, Ole Rønø ^a   Korstgård, John A ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Detaching faults; Fault analysis; North Sea

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; SEDIMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; TECTONICS;

BASAL FRICTION; DANISH HORN GRABEN; FAULT ANALYSIS PROJECTION SYSTEM; NORTH SEA; PLANAR DETACHING FAULTS; ZECHSTEIN SALT EVAPORITES;

GEOLOGY;

DETACHING FAULT; DETACHING FAULTS; EXTENSION; FAULT; PERMIAN; SUBSIDENCE; TECTONICS; ZECHSTEIN;

NORTH SEA, HORN GRABEN;

EID: 0030220569     PISSN: 02648172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0264-8172(96)00001-3     Document Type: Article

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