Cenozoic stress field evolution in the Baikal rift zone

Bulletin des Centres de Recherches Elf Exploration Production

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 435-455

  San'kov, Vladimir A ^a   Miroshnichenko, Andrei I ^a   Levi, Kirill G ^a   Lukhnev, Andrei ^a   Melnikov, Alexandre I ^a   Delvaux, Damien ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF THE EARTH S CRUST   (Russian Federation)

^b ROYAL MUSEUM FOR CENTRAL AFRICA   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Baikal rift; Cenozoic; Extension tectonics; Rifting; Stress field; Transpression

Indexed keywords

CENOZOIC; RIFT ZONE; STRESS; TRANSPRESSION;

RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

EID: 0031544478     PISSN: 03962687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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