Inelastic yielding and forebulge shape across a modern foreland basin: North West Shelf of Australia, Timor Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 1455-1458

  Lorenzo, Juan M ^a   O'Brien, Geoffrey W ^b   Stewart, Jonathan ^c   Tandon, Kush ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; RHEOLOGY; ROCKS; SEISMOLOGY; STRESS CONCENTRATION; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

CONTINENTAL FORELAND LITHOSPHERE; EFFECTIVE ELASTIC THICKNESS; FORELAND BASIN; INELASTIC YIELDING; MECHANICAL DECOUPLING; SEISMIC REFLECTION IMAGES;

TECTONICS;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; ELASTICITY; FORELAND BASIN; LITHOSPHERE; SUBDUCTION;

TIMOR SEA;

EID: 0032076793     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL01012     Document Type: Article

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