Comparison of gravity-driven deformation styles and behavior associated with mobile shales and salt

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1154-1170

  Morley, C K ^a,b   Guerin, G ^a  

^a TOTAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITI BRUNEI DARUSSALAM   (Brunei Darussalam)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; GRAVITY TECTONICS; MOBILE SHALE; MOBILITY; SALT;

EID: 0030406750     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC01416     Document Type: Review

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