Tectonic inheritance, crustal architecture, and contrasting structural styles in the Venezuela Andes

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 777-794

  Colletta, Bernard ^a   Roure, François ^a   De Toni, Bruno ^b   Loureiro, Daniel ^b   Passalacqua, Herminio ^b   Gou, Yves ^c  

^a IFP ENERGIES NOUVELLES   (France)

^b PDVSA INTEVEP   (Venezuela)

^c BEICIP FRANLAB   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; PALINSPASTIC RESTORATION; TECTONICS; THRUST;

VENEZUELA, ANDES;

FAULTING; GEOCHRONOLOGY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

LITHOSPHERIC MANTLE; LOWER CRETACEOUS; SEISMIC PROFILES; SOUTH-DIPPING SUBDUCTION; STRAIN PARTITIONING; STRIKE-SLIP MOTION; STRUCTURAL STYLES; UPPER CRETACEOUS;

FAULT SLIPS;

EID: 0031411377     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC01659     Document Type: Article

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