The onset of movement on the Philippine Fault in eastern Mindanao: A transition from a collision to a strike-slip environment

Tectonics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 713-726

  Quebral, Ramon D ^a   Pubellier, Manuel ^b   Rangin, Claude ^b  

^a Mines and Geosciences Bureau Philippines   (Philippines)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; LOCKS (FASTENERS);

ARC COLLISIONS; COLLISION ZONE; COLLISIONAL; COMPRESSIONAL; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

COLLISION; DEFORMATION; DIACHRONISM; PHILIPPINE FAULT; STRIKE SLIP;

PHILIPPINES, MINDANAO;

EID: 0030460843     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/95TC00480     Document Type: Article

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