Ten-million-year history of a thrust sheet

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1608-1625

  Meigs, Andrew J ^a,c   Vergés, Jaume ^b   Burbank, Douglas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; STRATIGRAPHY;

DEFORMED STATE; FOLD-AND-THRUST BELTS; FORELAND BASIN; INFINITE NUMBERS; INTERNAL DEFORMATION; RATE OF DEFORMATION; SPANISH PYRENEES; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL PATTERNS; STUDY AREAS; TIME WINDOWS;

DEFORMATION;

CALIBRATION; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; EMPLACEMENT; HANGING WALL; KINEMATICS; MANTLE DISCONTINUITY; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; THRUST FAULT; EMPLACEMENT MECHANISM; FOLD AND THRUST BELT; TECTONICS; TERTIARY; THRUST SHEET;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 0030436412     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0016-7606(1996)108<1608:TMYHOA>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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