Tertiary faulting and pseudotachylytes in the East Greenland volcanic rifted margin: Seismogenic faulting during magmatic construction

Geology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 39-42

  Karson, Jeffrey A ^a   Brooks, C Kent ^b   Storey, Michael ^b   Pringle, Malcolm S ^c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DANISH LITHOSPHERE CENTRE   (Denmark)

^c SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES; LEVEES; VOLCANOES;

CATACLASTIC DEFORMATION; CONTINENT-OCEAN TRANSITION; DIKE INTRUSION; FLOOD BASALT; LARGE VOLUMES; PSEUDOTACHYLYTES; RIFTED MARGINS; SEAFLOOR SPREADING;

FAULTING;

CATACLASITE; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; DIKE; FAULTING; PLATE TECTONICS; PSEUDOTACHYLITE; RIFT ZONE; SEAFLOOR SPREADING; SEISMICITY; TERTIARY; VOLCANIC ARC; CRUSTAL DEFORMATION; PSEUDOTACHYLYTE; SEISMOGENIC FAULTING; VOLCANIC RIFTED MARGIN;

ARCTIC; EAST GREENLAND; GREENLAND;

EID: 0031971266     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/0091-7613(1998)026<0039:TFAPIT>2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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