Bedding-plane slip in initial stages of fault-related folding

Journal of Structural Geology

Volumn 19, Issue 3-4 SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 567-581

  Cooke, M L ^a,b   Pollard, D D ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; FRICTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; KINEMATICS; LITHOLOGY; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATE; STRATIGRAPHY;

BEDDING PLANE SLIP; FAULT RELATED FOLDING; FRICTIONAL SLIP;

TECTONICS;

BEDDING PLANE; FAULTING; FOLDING; FRICTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENT; SLIP;

EID: 0031104326     PISSN: 01918141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0191-8141(96)00097-1     Document Type: Article

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