Direct evidence of active deformation in the eastern Indian oceanic plate

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 131-134

  Deplus, Christine ^a   Diament, Michel ^a   Hébert, Hélène ^a   Bertrand, Guillaume ^b   Dominguez, Stéphane ^c   Dubois, Jacques ^a   Malod, Jacques ^d   Patriat, Philippe ^a   Pontoise, Bernard ^e   Sibilla, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

^e INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; STRIKE-SLIP FAULTS;

ACTIVE DEFORMATION; CONTINENT-CONTINENT COLLISIONS; EQUATORIAL INDIAN OCEAN; FRACTURE ZONE; OCEANIC LITHOSPHERE; OCEANIC PLATE; PLATE BOUNDARIES; REVERSE FAULTS;

FAULT SLIPS;

DEFORMATION; GEOPHYSICS; INDIAN PLATE; INTRAPLATE PROCESS; PLATE BOUNDARY; PLATE TECTONICS; INTRAPLATE DEFORMATION; OCEANIC PLATE;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); NINETYEAST RIDGE;

EID: 0031961218     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0131:DEOADI>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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