Successive orthogonal and oblique extension episodes in a rift zone: Laboratory experiments with application to the Ethiopian Rift

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 347-362

  Bonini, Marco ^a,b   Souriot, Thierry ^c   Boccaletti, Mario ^a   Brun, Jean Pierre ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE RENNES 1   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALOGUE MODEL; EXTENSIONAL TECTONICS; FAULTING; RIFTING;

ETHIOPIA, ETHIOPIAN RIFT;

EID: 0030820952     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96TC03935     Document Type: Article

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