Graben inversion in nature and experiments

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 677-687

  Brun, Jean Pierre ^a,b   Nalpas, Thierry ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODEL; DECOLLEMENT; GRABEN; INVERSION; RHEOLOGY;

NORTH SEA;

EID: 0030456544     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC03853     Document Type: Article

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