From small-scale faults to plate kinematics: Palaeostress determinations in a fragmented arc complex (SE Livingston Island, S Shetlands, Antarctica)

Journal of the Geological Society

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1011-1020

  Santanach, P ^a   Pallas, R ^a   Sabat F ^a   Munoz J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Faults; Kinematics; Plates

Indexed keywords

FAULT; KINEMATICS; STRESS; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ANTARCTICA, SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS, LIVINGSTON ISLAND;

EID: 0030439833     PISSN: 00167649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.153.6.1011     Document Type: Article

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