State of stress and tectonic evolution of the West Spitsbergen fold belt

Tectonophysics

Volumn 267, Issue 1-4, 1996, Pages 1-29

  Manby, G M ^a   Lyberis, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GREENWICH   (United Kingdom)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

North Greenland Svalbard convergence; Stress tensor analysis; West Spitsbergen and Eurekan Fold Belts

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION; CRETACEOUS; DEFORMATION; PALAEOCENE; STRESS TENSOR; TECTONIC EVOLUTION;

SVALBARD, SPITSBERGEN, WEST SPITSBERGEN FOLD BELT;

EID: 0030409531     PISSN: 00401951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0040-1951(96)00109-6     Document Type: Article

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