Interplay of static loads and subduction dynamics in foreland basins: Reciprocal stratigraphies and the "missing" peripheral bulge

Geology

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1087-1090

  Catuneanu, Octavian ^a   Beaumont, Christopher ^b   Waschbusch, Paula ^b  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STRATIGRAPHY;

BASE LEVEL CHANGE; DYNAMIC LOADINGS; LONG WAVELENGTH; STACKING PATTERNS; STATIC AND DYNAMIC FORCES; SUBDUCTING PLATE; SUBDUCTING SLABS; SUBDUCTION DYNAMICS;

DYNAMIC LOADS;

BASIN ANALYSIS; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERE; LOADING; STRATIGRAPHY; SUBDUCTION; CRETACEOUS; PERIPHERAL BULGE; STATIC LOAD;

CANADA; WESTERN INTERIOR BASIN;

EID: 0031412178     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1997)025<1087:IOSLAS>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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