Contrasting styles of superposed deformation in the southernmost Andes

Tectonics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 755-776

  Klepeis, Keith A ^a   Austin Jr , James A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUILDINGS; DEFORMATION; FAULTING; METAMORPHIC ROCKS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SEISMIC WAVES; SEISMOLOGY; STRATIGRAPHY; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS; VOLCANOES;

MULTICHANNEL SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SEISMIC REFLECTION DATA; SEISMIC REFLECTION PROFILES; SEISMIC REFRACTION DATA; STRUCTURAL ANISOTROPY; STRUCTURAL RELATIONSHIP; TRANSFORM PLATE BOUNDARY; TRANSTENSIONAL DEFORMATION;

FAULT SLIPS;

DEFORMATION; EXTENSION; FAULT ARRAY; MESOZOIC; SEISMIC REFLECTION; TERTIARY;

CHILE, MAGALLANES BASIN;

EID: 0031421413     PISSN: 02787407     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97TC01611     Document Type: Article

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