Quantifying the kinematics of detachment folds using three-dimensional geometry: Application to the Mediano anticline (Pyrenees, Spain)

Bulletin of the Geological Society of America

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 111-125

  Poblet, Josep ^a,b,c   Muñoz, Josep A ^b   Travé, Anna ^b   Serra Kiel, Josep ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; GROWTH KINETICS;

AMPLIFICATION MECHANISM; ASYMMETRIC GROWTHS; DEFORMATION RATES; DETACHMENT FOLDS; FORWARD MODELING; MESOSTRUCTURES; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL GEOMETRY;

GEOMETRY;

ANTICLINE; BLOCK ROTATION; DETACHMENT FOLD; FOLD BELT; GEOMETRY; KINEMATICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SPATIAL VARIATION; SYNTECTONIC SEDIMENT; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; FOLDING; HINGE MIGRATION; LIMB ROTATION;

PYRENEES; SPAIN;

EID: 0031866534     PISSN: 00167606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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